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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>
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Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD
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On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> > 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.

  NS records?  Don't you mean A records?  I know that named will do 
round-robin ordering on any item with multiple records.

Tom