Bryan Irvine wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Pounsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 30-Oct-2008, at 13:34 , Bryan Irvine wrote: >> >>> Creative I must admit, but doesn't work. Is there another way to get >>> this working perhaps with? >> >> Even if you can get BIND to hand out more than one identical record (I >> wouldn't expect that to work), the balance of load is dependant on the >> clients' algorithms for choosing an A record.. and the clients may not do >> what you want or expect. Some clients are semi-random, some rotate through >> the A records they get, and some cache and keep the first one they pick. > > Yeah but is it even possible to give more than one identical record? >
You'll have to experiment because the result is going to be dependent on the client behavior outside of your control. If Multiple identical A records didn't work, and you have some extra IPs to burn, I would try assigning multiple, IP addresses to server with more capacity. -- Dave
