48 lines
947 B
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48 lines
947 B
Groff
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.TH "COREDNS-LOADBALANCE" 7 "March 2021" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS Plugins"
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.SH "NAME"
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.PP
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\fIloadbalance\fP - randomizes the order of A, AAAA and MX records.
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.PP
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The \fIloadbalance\fP will act as a round-robin DNS load balancer by randomizing the order of A, AAAA,
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and MX records in the answer.
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.PP
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See Wikipedia
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\[la]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS\[ra] about the pros and cons of this
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setup. It will take care to sort any CNAMEs before any address records, because some stub resolver
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implementations (like glibc) are particular about that.
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.SH "SYNTAX"
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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loadbalance [POLICY]
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.fi
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.RE
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.IP \(bu 4
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\fBPOLICY\fP is how to balance. The default, and only option, is "round_robin".
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
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.PP
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Load balance replies coming back from Google Public DNS:
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.RS
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.nf
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\&. {
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loadbalance round\_robin
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forward . 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
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}
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.fi
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.RE
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