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Re: interop problems with getaddrinfo() address selection

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Fri, 07 December 2007 17:46 UTC

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, der Mouse wrote:
>
> I'm interseted in what sort of problems it causes.

DNS round robin is effective at balancing load evenly across multiple
servers, because each client is (in effect) directed to one of the servers
at random. If the client sorts the DNS response before using it then the
randomization is defeated and the load on the servers is no longer
balanced.

Ian's message described the problem briefly in point 12, but I forgive you
for not reading it :-)

Tony.
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