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- From: jnford@argos.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford)
- Subject: Re: Service Load Balancing
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.000027.31582@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Keywords: shuffle records
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- Reply-To: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
- Organization: Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <dm2xazj@rpi.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:00:27 GMT
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- In article <dm2xazj@rpi.edu>, finkej@ts.its.rpi.edu (Jon E. Finke) writes:
- |> I see a couple of ways of doing this. Someone mentioned "shuffle" records,
- |> which I assume result in a single address being returned per query, but
- |> the address stepping through a list of addresses for later queries. This
- |> would take a hack to named, and might go part of the way to meeting the
- |> need.
-
- I asked about a BIND rotary capability a while ago, and received a pointer to
- some code which does the shuffle address records. It works for us. The note I
- received follows my signature. If you have trouble tracking down the code, let
- me know and I'll try to package it up for you.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Jay Ford, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
- jay-ford@uiowa.edu (or jnford@handlebar.weeg.uiowa.edu), 319-335-5555
-
-
- To: jay-ford@uiowa.edu
- Cc: bind@vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU
- Subject: Re: rotary cabability for named?
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Dec 91 11:24:48 CST."
- <9112121724.AA08699@handlebar.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 91 21:11:18 -0500
- From: Bryan Beecher <bryan@notorious.rs.itd.umich.edu>
-
- > A while ago someone mentioned that they had developed a rotary capability for
- > named, allowing it to cycle through a group of addresses when asked about a
- > name. I thought I stashed the note away for future use, but now I can't find
- > it, and the future seems to be here because I need it now.
- >
- > I would appreciate any pointers to the code to do this. I'm certain that it
- > exists; I just can't find it.
-
- You might be thinking of our shuffle-A (SA) records. Have a look on
- terminator.cc.umich.edu in /unix/dns. There is a short write-up on
- them, and there is a version of BIND 4.8.3 that supports them (and
- includes patches that have been posted).
- -- bryan
-