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Also known as: DNS round robin
Publishing several server addresses under one hostname so that successive lookups return different machines. Providers use it to spread customer connections across a reader cluster and to route around a failed node. One consequence is that a client opening twenty connections may land on several different servers, which is harmless for reading but can make troubleshooting a single bad node confusing.
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