Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:24:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: nc@ai.net (Network Coordinator) Cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD Message-ID: <199506292224.AAA06032@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950629002711.5303F-100000@aries.ai.net> from "Network Coordinator" at Jun 29, 95 00:28:25 am
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> DNS servers will just sequentially cycle through a list of servers, it > won't intelligently find the least busy machine. Is there a way to do it > intelligently with DNS? Depends on how the resolver is written but generally the NS records are used in "random" order but it will use the fastest one after a while. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May 3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995
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