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								.TH "COREDNS-LOADBALANCE" "7" "April 2019" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS Plugins"
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								.SH NAME
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								\fIloadbalance\fP - randomize the order of A, AAAA and MX records.
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								.SH DESCRIPTION
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								The \fIloadbalance\fP will act as a round-robin DNS loadbalancer by randomizing the order of A, AAAA,
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								and MX records in the answer.
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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 on 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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								loadbalance [POLICY]
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								.RE
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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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								Load balance replies coming back from Google Public DNS:
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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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								.RE
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