On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Niall.oReilly+lists at ucd.ie wrote:
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.
I claimed that this permutation process acts to balance the load. Which it does. I guess if you want something cleverer than that, you could implement a protocol that balances the load through some sort of query-based handoff system, but that's completely out of the realm of what we've been talking about.