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Re: round rubin



On Thu, Aug 30, 2001, master p wrote about "round rubin":
> any idea what is round rubin in dns?

Round-robin (sic) means you have a list of possibilities (in this case
a single domain name resolves to a list of IP addresses), and each time
you need a single answer you pick the next one, in cyclic order. This
is a rudimentary (but usually quite effective) form of load balancing.


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