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List:       redhat-list
Subject:    random resolve ip ?
From:       Edward Marczak marczak () usa ! net
Date:       2000-05-31 23:36:39
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on 31/5/00 1:46 PM, Simons shot down the bitstream:

> Hello,
> 
> How can I resolve a hostname into several ip randomly?
> I wanna make one for my irc network.

Not sure what IRC has to do with this but....

If you just create multiple A records for this host, BIND will serve them up
one after another ("round-robin").
> 
> I'm using A record of bind now, is there any solutions for getting better
> random rate?

Round-robin will distribute them cyclically.
-- 
Ed Marczak
marczak@usa.net

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