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title: "Round Robin DNS"
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published: "2018-10-31T17:01:38+00:00"
modified: "2024-10-31T16:28:37+00:00"
author: "Mark E. Jeftovic"
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Round Robin DNS Round Robin DNS provides a way to spread traffic across multiple resources by specifying more than one IP address (A record) or IPv6 address (AAAA record) for the same hostname.

An example would be a pool of web servers or email servers:

www.example.com IN A 10.0.1.16 IN A 10.0.1.17 IN A 10.0.1.18 When our nameservers receive a query for www.example.com they return all of the records, but the order of the records returned is rotated sequentially after each query. If the above snippet depicted a query and response, then the next query would receive the response:

       QueryResponse  www.example.com10.0.1.18

10.0.1.17

10.0.1.16

   www.example.com10.0.1.17

10.0.1.18

10.0.1.16

    

It is important to note that this is not a weighted load balancing solution, it’s a statistical load distributor.