Is it possible to have round-robin DNS with /etc/hosts file?
Is it possible to have round-robin DNS with the follwing configuration in /etc/hosts
?
192.168.4.10 shaakunthala.local
192.168.4.20 shaakunthala.local
I'm on Linux.
dnsmasq inludes Round-robin DNS out-of-the-box
> egrep -m1 '^nameserver' /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
> grep -i rrtest /etc/hosts
1.1.1.1 rrtest
2.2.2.2 rrtest
> /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
Shutting down dnsmasq: [ OK ]
Starting dnsmasq: [ OK ]
> nslookup rrtest
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Name: rrtest
Address: 2.2.2.2
Name: rrtest
Address: 1.1.1.1
> nslookup rrtest
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Name: rrtest
Address: 1.1.1.1
Name: rrtest
Address: 2.2.2.2
No, that doesn't work.
Also /etc/hosts is a primitive form of name->address mapping that DNS is meant to replace. If you want round-robin DNS, install a DNS server.