Re: Solaris gethostbyname and roun robining

Richard Hopkins <Richard.Hopkins@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,

> The Solaris man page for gethostbyname includes...

> "The system will strive to put the addresses on the same sub-net as that of
> the caller first."

> This means that round robining doesn't strictly work as you might expect
> (or want). Does anyone know if there's a way to get Solaris not to prefer
> addresses on the same subnet, but to treat all as equal?

Link your apps with bind-resolver ( 8 or 9 picked up from isc.org)

> Cheers,

> Richard Hopkins,
> Information Services,
> Computer Centre,
> University of Bristol,
> Bristol, BS8 1UD, UK

> Tel +44 117 928 7859
> Fax +44 117 929 1576



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