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>Table A-3. Random Backend capabilities</B
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>Native</TD
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>Yes</TD
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>Slave</TD
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> This is a very silly backend which is discussed in <A
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> This backend knows about only one hostname, and only about its IP address at that. With every query,
a new random IP address is generated.
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> It only makes sense to load the random backend in combination with a regular backend. This can be done by prepending
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> Variables:
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> Hostname for which to supply a random IP address.
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