Friday, June 7, 2013

How to Use Multiple IP Addresses (DNS Load Balancing)

Round Robin DNS & DDNS is a technique of load distribution, load balancing, or fault-tolerance provisioning multiple, redundant Internet Protocol service hosts (e.g., Web servers and FTP servers), by managing the Domain Name System's (DNS) responses to address requests from client computers according to an appropriate statistical model.
You may have a computer with two or more network interface cards (NICs), or one NIC with more than one IP address, and need to add a record for the additional IP address(es) to your Domain Name Service (DNS) server. You may also have 2 servers with the same site installed on them and may want to balance the load between them.
This article explains how to add this entry into your DNS file.
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