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| # loadbalance
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| ## Name
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| *loadbalance* - randomizes the order of A, AAAA and MX records.
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| ## Description
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| The *loadbalance* 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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| See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS) 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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| ## Syntax
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| ~~~
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| loadbalance [POLICY]
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| ~~~
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| * **POLICY** is how to balance. The default, and only option, is "round_robin".
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| ## Examples
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| Load balance replies coming back from Google Public DNS:
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| ~~~ corefile
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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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| ~~~
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