coredns/middleware/loadbalance/README.md

# loadbalance

`loadbalance` acts as a round-robin DNS loadbalancer by randomizing the order of A and AAAA records in the answer. See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS) about the pros and cons
on this setup.

It will take care to sort any CNAMEs before any address records, because some stub resolver
implementations (like glibc) are particular about that.

## Syntax

~~~
loadbalance [policy]
~~~

* `policy` is how to balance, the default is "round_robin"

## Examples

~~~
loadbalance round_robin
~~~
Add roundrobin middleware This middleware allows you to round robin a/aaaa records in a reply and maybe more in the future (i.e.) sort a packet? 2016-03-23 15:57:48 +00:00			`# loadbalance`

Update README.md Grammatical fixes. 2016-08-22 14:25:19 -07:00			`loadbalance` acts as a round-robin DNS loadbalancer by randomizing the order of A and AAAA records in the answer. See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS) about the pros and cons
Add roundrobin middleware This middleware allows you to round robin a/aaaa records in a reply and maybe more in the future (i.e.) sort a packet? 2016-03-23 15:57:48 +00:00			`on this setup.`

Doc updates Remove miek.nl in favor of example.org and other smaller cleanups. 2016-08-22 07:47:03 +01:00			`It will take care to sort any CNAMEs before any address records, because some stub resolver`
Update README.md Grammatical fixes. 2016-08-22 14:25:19 -07:00			`implementations (like glibc) are particular about that.`
Add test for CNAME ordering Add a test for SkyDNS': https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns/issues/217 Put the CNAME in front for both answer and extra sections. Note that the etcd middleware seems to already to the correct thing though. 2016-03-26 09:53:40 +00:00
Add roundrobin middleware This middleware allows you to round robin a/aaaa records in a reply and maybe more in the future (i.e.) sort a packet? 2016-03-23 15:57:48 +00:00			`## Syntax`

			`~~~`
			`loadbalance [policy]`
			`~~~`

Add test for CNAME ordering Add a test for SkyDNS': https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns/issues/217 Put the CNAME in front for both answer and extra sections. Note that the etcd middleware seems to already to the correct thing though. 2016-03-26 09:53:40 +00:00			* `policy` is how to balance, the default is "round_robin"
Add roundrobin middleware This middleware allows you to round robin a/aaaa records in a reply and maybe more in the future (i.e.) sort a packet? 2016-03-23 15:57:48 +00:00
			`## Examples`

			`~~~`
			`loadbalance round_robin`
			`~~~`