Re: The OpenLDAP Client and Multiple DNS Records

Russell Jackson raj@csub.edu writes:

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

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Stanford has used Round Robin DNS entries for its ldap servers for over a decade. It works quite well for most things, except java.

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Try host -t txt ldap.stanford.edu

What are the TXT RRs for?

lbnamed returns pool participants and their current weights and increments as TXT records for debugging and informational purposes.

% dig +short -t txt ldap.best.stanford.edu @lbdns1.stanford.edu " 60/1.000 ldap4.stanford.edu" " 60/1.000 ldap1.stanford.edu" " 60/1.000 ldap3.stanford.edu"