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Subject: Re: Round-robin DNS?
From: Bernhard Schneck <Bernhard_Schneck @ GeNUA . DE>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:21:58 +0200
To: Firewalls @ greatcircle . com

 > > If www.foo.com refers several hosts, every DNS query to the server will give 
 > > you a different address.
 >
 > Untrue.  Perhaps a few implementations of DNS do this, but MOST do not
 > behave in this manner.
 >
 > [Nearly] any off-the-shelf DNS will give 'A record' results in the same order
 > every time.

BIND has been doing this for quite some time now.  If your DNS server
doesn't, either get a reasonable one yourself or complain to your verndor.

For more information see http://www.isc.org/isc/

\Bernhard.

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