From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 23 06:24:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ED516A402 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:24:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E9643D45 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:24:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FXY1S-000Dqt-2Q for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:24:42 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:24:41 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: bind and multiple a records X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:24:43 -0000 On FreeBSD 6.0 with bind9, if I define a host to have multiple A records, such that some IP addresses are listed more than once, for example: . . . www 600 IN A 192.168.1.1 600 IN A 192.168.1.2 600 IN A 192.168.1.1 . . . Will those addresses listed more than once show up more often as the "answer" to name server requests (or more often as the first address since it lists all addresses in response alternating the order)?? I am trying to achieve really crude weighting in my load distribution. I've been running this way for some time and in looking at snapshots of server traffic, it sometimes look like it is doing so and sometimes not, but my measurements are not really accurate. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net