I have 7 rsync mirrors set up, but I only see some clients hitting just
1 mirror even though the hostname resolves to 7 distinct IP addresses.
On a cent 4x box running rsync 2.6.9, I straced the rsync process, and
I can see the name resolution happen, and all 7 IP addresses are
returned, but rsync always picks the same IP address to connect to. If
I sorted all 7 of the IP addresses returned on the first octet, the
lowest number is the one it uses.
I have seen different behavior on rsync v2.6.8 on a centos 5.x box,
where it used 3 of the 7 IPs, and they were always the 3 lowest in terms
of 1st octet. I havent found a rsync version that utilizes all 7 IPs
from the resolved hostname, even though strace shows its sending back
all 7 IPs.
Has anyone every seen or reported an issue like this? I couldnt find
any bugs on it...
Thanks,
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Dallas Engelken
dallase@uribl.com
http://uribl.com
