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Re: DNS Load Balancing

From: Dean Strik (deanstack.nl)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 00:40:42 CST

Tobias Reckhard wrote:
> Neither scheme provides deterministic load distribution. Both depend
> entirely on how clients handle multiple answers to DNS queries. You have
> no influence on that at all.

Clients randomize. RFC2821 even *requires* randomization by the client.
It just works.

Of course, distribution could be anything between 40%-60% one day and
60%-40% the other day, but *that* hardly makes a difference.

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