I have consul as nameserver that resolves address from two instances of a service. DNS info via dig interface.http.service.consul:
...
interface.http.service.consul. 0 IN A 10.0.0.85
interface.http.service.consul. 0 IN A 10.0.1.22
...
ping will alternate between both addresses:
while true; do ping -c 1 interface.http.service.consul | grep PING; sleep 1; done
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.0.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.0.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.0.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.1.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.0.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.1.22) 56(84) bytes of data.
PING interface.http.service.consul (10.0.0.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
However curl or wget won't alternate between these two IPs. I checked the DNS requests:
They always prefer the "more local" target during a multiple curl calls:
19:43:17.979701 IP nginx.stage.35800 > dns01.node.staging.consul.domain: 49288+ A? interface.http.service.consul. (54)
19:43:17.980586 IP dns01.node.staging.consul.domain > nginx.stage.35800: 49288* 2/0/0 A 10.0.1.22, A 10.0.0.85 (86)
19:43:19.056563 IP nginx.stage.56584 > dns01.node.staging.consul.domain: 44478+ A? interface.http.service.consul. (54)
19:43:19.057605 IP dns01.node.staging.consul.domain > nginx.stage.56584: 44478* 2/0/0 A 10.0.0.85, A 10.0.1.22 (86)
19:43:34.873807 IP nginx.facemantest.36293 > dns01.node.staging.consul.domain: 43958+ A? interface.http.service.consul. (54)
19:43:34.875065 IP dns01.node.staging.consul.domain > nginx.stage.36293: 43958* 2/0/0 A 10.0.0.85, A 10.0.1.22 (86)
So the DNS response have either 10.0.0.85 or 10.0.1.22 as first A record. But curl always uses 10.0.1.22, never 10.0.0.85.
The machine where I run curl has 10.0.1.10 as IP address. It also looks like this affects the nginx proxy pass mechanism.
Here my question: Do http clients check the IP, and choose an IP that looks closer? Can I disable such a behavior?