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round robin DNS |
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round robin DNSA technique for balancing the load between servers on the Internet that perform the same functions. When a DNS request arrives at a round robin DNS server, it responds by returning IP addresses in rotation. For example, if a Web site is made up of 10 servers with the same set of Web pages and content, the IP address of the first server is delivered to the first request; then the second address in the list is given to the second request and so on. This is a continuous loop. When the 11th request comes in, the first IP address is once again handed out; the 12th request, the second address, etc. See round robin and DNS. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Round Robin DNS distributed the connection loads and gave some measure of load balancing," commented Franklin Lerum, Manager for Distributed Systems at Egghead, Inc. |
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