DNS Round Robin and Load balancing

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Hi any suggestion on my setup, Im running windows 2003 dns, i got a zone
xxx.com which is configure as Primary zone, I put 3 A record with name
server.xxx.com pointing to 3 different IP address, if i send ping on the
server.xxx.com and replys on IP one, and its always responsing on same IP,
but if i use active directory integrated zone and send ping to
server.xxx.com, it randomly replys all 3 IP, my questions is it possible to
have randomly reply using primary zone.


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DNS said:
Hi any suggestion on my setup, Im running windows 2003 dns, i got a
zone xxx.com which is configure as Primary zone, I put 3 A record
with name server.xxx.com pointing to 3 different IP address, if i
send ping on the server.xxx.com and replys on IP one, and its always
responsing on same IP, but if i use active directory integrated zone
and send ping to server.xxx.com, it randomly replys all 3 IP, my
questions is it possible to have randomly reply using primary zone.
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Turn off "Enable netmask ordering" set the TTL on all the A records to 0 so
that the client doesn't cache the records.


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TTL Default setting is 0:1:0:0, i will set it to 0?
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0:1:0:0 is one hour. You don't need to change the default, only the TTL on
these records. Default TTL is used for all new records and for NXDOMAIN
negative cache TTL.

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0:1:0:0 is one hour. You don't need to change the default, only the TTL on
these records. Default TTL is used for all new records and for NXDOMAIN
negative cache TTL.
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Another fix is to have two clients pinging the address one after the
other. This will prove the DNS round-robin is working.
 
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