[Dnsmasq-discuss] Round Robin ping

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

Need more information about the `ping` implementation you are using.
Does it re-lookup the name for each echo request?  Usually it will
look up the name once and use that single address for all outgoing
ICMP packets.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:21 PM, James Brown <James.Brown at ipsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I’ve had a hard time finding any info about this on the internet.
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> I have a round robin hostname set up in my hosts file, and my resolv.conf is
> set to dnsmasq. Nslookup queries come back correctly (it shows all four ips)
> but when I ping the name it only pings the first one listed. Is this the
> expected behavior? Or am I missing something here. It works differently in
> BIND, where ping will cycle through all the listed ips.
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> James Brown
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