From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 15:25:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA10120 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:25:27 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA10109 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:25:13 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id AAA26177 ; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:25:10 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id AAA06032 ; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:24:57 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199506292224.AAA06032@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD To: nc@ai.net (Network Coordinator) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:24:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Coordinator" at Jun 29, 95 00:28:25 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD BUILT-19950501 ctm#617 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 466 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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