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Re:Docker Networking and DNS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by falcolas on Monday April 25, 2016 @02:25PM (#11566193)
You also have to account for how your individual programming language handles DNS lookups - i.e. does it do its own caching? Round robin can quickly breaks down when using DNS.
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Re:Docker Networking and DNS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by jjn2009 on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:47PM (#11568010)
This is the reason why kubernetes uses proxying rather than DNS for load balancing. The number of pitfalls with using DNS for loadbalancing are just too large.
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Re:Docker Networking and DNS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by vfarcic on Monday April 25, 2016 @02:59PM (#11566450)
My intention was to send the same message. That's why I put Docker DNS as "potentially useful but still in its infancy".
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