Thanks. I ended up setting up a virtual test environment to confirm. That brought forth another question though.
So, weight seems to be honored on initial traffic receipt. But if I test by taking down the node with a higher weighting, so the traffic shifts to nodes with lower weighting, then I bring the heavier weighted node back into rotation, traffic does not seem to shift back to it. Now maybe it eventually does, but in 5 minutes or so of testing it did not. Even after taking away the test traffic from the client and then re-applying it after a couple minutes, traffic was still choosing the lesser weighted node, not the heavier weighted. I guess the question is if left for a longer length of time, would it eventually start honoring the weight? I'm finding to get the result I'm expecting I have to add ordering to the mix via the "order" directive. Thanks, Frank On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Remi Gacogne <remi.gaco...@powerdns.com> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On 07/26/2017 10:18 PM, Frank Even wrote: >> So this likely comes off as a stupid question, but I can't seem to get >> clarity from the documentation itself. >> >> Is a higher numerical weight a "heavier" weight for that system or is a >> lower numerical weight a "heavier" weight for the system? > > It's a good question and it looks like the answer is indeed not in our > documentation, I'll fix that. > A higher numerical weight means the backend is more likely to be > selected by the policy, so more queries coming towards it. > > > Best regards, > -- > Remi Gacogne > PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > dnsdist mailing list > dnsdist@mailman.powerdns.com > https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/dnsdist > _______________________________________________ dnsdist mailing list dnsdist@mailman.powerdns.com https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/dnsdist