On 01/03/2024 11:02, Jim Reid wrote:
On 1 Mar 2024, at 10:37, Greg Choules via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org>
wrote:
In summary, Do the hard work of traffic steering somewhere else and let your
DNS resolvers deliver the chosen answer. Don't make the resolvers themselves
try to do this on the basis of incomplete information.
Well said Greg!
Leave it to the application to decide which is the best* address in the list of
addresses returned from a DNS lookup.
IMO the DNS (mostly) provides name-address mapping info and it’s up to whoever
receives that info to decide how it gets processed and acted on. This is not a
job for BIND or other DNS servers.
* For some definition of best
+1
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