AWS S3 DNS load balancer

Wed Jun 16 02:14:27 UTC 2021

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:33 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:07 AM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2021-06-15 at 11:37 +0000, Deepak Jain wrote:
>> > (I’m talking specifically about S3 not Route5x or whatever the DNS
>> > product is).
>>
>> Route53.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "S3 DNS". I wasn't aware S3 had any DNS
>> functionality at all... on the other hand, there is much indeed that I
>> do not know.
>>
>>
> Maybe Deepak means:
>   "When I ask for an S3 endpoint I get 1 answer, which is 1 of a set of N.
> Why would
>    the 'loadbalancer' send me all N?"
>
> (I don't know a aws s3 url to test this out with, an example from Deepak
> would be handy)
>
>

also, just for grins:
$ while /bin/true; do dig +short s3.amazonaws.com   @ns-63.awsdns-07.com.>>
/tmp/aws; sleep 1; done

after a time:
$ wc -l /tmp/aws
17787 /tmp/aws

and:
$ sort -n  /tmp/aws | uniq -c | sort -rn | wc -l
6457

Some of the results appear ~11 times? most likely only 1x.

> Regards, K.
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
>> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
>>
>>
>>
>>
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