Ted Lemon wrote:
On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Niall.oReilly+lists at ucd.ie wrote:Don't you mean load scattering (rather than balancing), or am I missing something?Try looking up the A record on a name with three different A records, three different times, and notice how the ordering changes.
I know. Unless the nameserver has custom policy tuning, I'll probably get three different permutations of the records. It's quite a leap from there to what you claimed. Ted Lemon wrote: > [...] DNS already > specifies a load balancing mechanism for names that return multiple > A or AAAA records. The online version of the (4th edition of the) "Cricket book" points out, "Note that this is really load distribution, not load balancing [...]". I'm not aware of any DNS-related RFC which "specifies a load-balancing mechanism". Best regards Niall O'Reilly