https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7046
Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> --- (In reply to RW from comment #3) > I was just looking at the code and it appear that it doesn't attempt to > randomize the order, it just rotates the list a random number of time. This > may be a bit confusing if you are expecting proper randomization. > > Irrespective of whether it's working as intended, this is a poor way of > doing load balancing. For example if there are four ip addresses A,B,C,D and > A and B are offline, C gets three times as much load as D. I believe you are misunderstanding what the switch does. -H, --randomize For TCP/IP sockets, randomize the IP addresses returned for the hosts given by the -d switch. This provides for a simple kind of load balancing. It will try only three times though. if you do -d host1,host2,host3... it randomizes those hosts. It does not randomize the A records if you have a host1 that gives 3 A records, for example. Are you proposing that you would like it to randomize all entries at a weight of 1 whether explicit or from an A/AAAA record look up? Regards, KAM -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
