Round Robin using DNS tool?

[JPDeFillippo]

Is it possible to set-up round robin DNS using the DNS tool so I can set-up redundant web servers? I know it's the poor man's traffic management but it will work for what I need. Can it be done?

[knightfoo]

Originally posted by JPDeFillippo
Is it possible to set-up round robin DNS using the DNS tool so I can set-up redundant web servers? I know it's the poor man's traffic management but it will work for what I need. Can it be done?

The DNS Tool does not allow multiple records with the same name, so you cannot do this. If you configure ServerBeach nameservers to slave the zone from your own nameserver, you can set as many records as you like though. It really won't work the way you want due to caching and the fact that DNS is not truly random. If you have multiple A records pointing to the different IP addresses, the first one will be returned about 75% of the time. You might be better of doing some sort of redirect between multiple web servers (www1, www2, www3, etc) so that the first web server sends requests off to the second web server if it has a certain client load.

-knightfoo