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Re: more than one dns entry



On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:27:29AM -0700, Mevorach, Assaf wrote:
> but does it really balance the connections in a random uniformly distribute
> way? (i.e. ~ 50% to each one) 
> or just when you do 'host' you can know that they have few ip's

Switching entries, or having some DNS server give random responses
is a bad idea, since DNS entries have time-to-live and you're usually
interested in keeping those high enough to reduce load from your
DNS. But then, the user ISP's DNS server caches your entry
and the balancing for that ISP goes to hell.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie

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