Discussion:
DNS round robin, proxying, and a dead server
Ian Holsman
2003-08-20 16:46:43 UTC
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I think I'm right in saying this.

if we have multiple responses for a given DNS lookup, we will try each
response until we get a connection.

is this a correct assumption?? it looks like it is doing this in the
code, or is this trickery just to try a v4/v6 thing?

http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/modules/proxy/proxy_util.c#1156
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