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Round Robin DNS (More than one IP Address for a Hostname)

This article applies to: DNS

Round-robin DNS is useful for load balancing between two or more machines.

DNS will cycle from one IP address to the next each time the hostname is called for. There is a provision for entering secondary IP addresses on the host page.

A cautionary note: this type of registration is not a solution for a fail-over situation. That is, should one machine go down, DNS will continue to cycle and one IP address will fail every other time.

If you have two network interfaces on different subnets on a single machine, you will need to ask the hostmaster for help with registering because of filtering issues on the network equipment.

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