A Consul operator registers the same `web` service on ten nodes. When clients query `web.service.consul` via DNS, they receive different IP addresses on repeated queries. Which Consul behavior explains this?

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B. Consul randomizes the order of healthy service addresses returned in DNS responses to distribute load. Consul's DNS interface returns all healthy service instances for a given service name and randomizes their order in each DNS response. This round-robin-style randomization distributes client connections across healthy instances without requiring a dedicated load balancer. Option c is wrong because Consul can return multiple A records in a single DNS response.

A Consul operator registers the same `web` service on ten nodes. When clients query `web.service.consul` via DNS, they receive different IP addresses on repeated queries. Which Consul behavior explains this?

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A Consul operator registers the same web service on ten nodes. When clients query web.service.consul via DNS, they receive different IP addresses on repeated queries. Which Consul behavior explains this?

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A Consul operator registers the same `web` service on ten nodes. When clients query `web.service.consul` via DNS, they receive different IP addresses on repeated queries. Which Consul behavior explains this?