On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Mark M. Barrios wrote: > i think what he means is that dnscache returns _all_ the A records in > the same order every time it gets cached... > unlike bind which returns _all_ A records but in a different order each > time it is looked up
Which is my point, dnscache breaks expected bind behaviour which should have been clearly documented. It broke my load balancing setup and hammered one server to death! Oh well, with the jumbo patch installed for djbdns, i got the correct functionality anyway, so who is complaining.. > clients usualy pick the first record returned hence the roundrobin effect > > :D > likot wrote: > > >--- "Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hello djb geeks (ikaw ito dek!) \8) > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >>I just found out that dnscache does not round robin > >>DNS requests when a > >>name has more than one A record attached to it. > >>Why? This totally breaks > >>compatibility with bind.. > >> > >> > > > >because it returns _all_ the A records :) > > > >here's a thread that discusses that, > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104483126300004&r=1&w=2 > > > > > > > >>Anyway looking for a patch (there was one i saw) the > >>one i got failed to > >>apply on 1.0.5. Does anyone know of a working patch > >>to solve this > >>problem? > >> > >> > > > >the patch works, tried it here so what was the > >error in your end ? > > > > > >>Ian > >> > >> > >> > > > >-Dek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_____________________________ > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > >http://shopping.yahoo.com > >_ > >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
