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When specifying extra IP addresses for failover and load balancing, failover works but load balancing doesnt.

Actually the behavior is very funny. Pfsense load balances when the failover IP is DOWN. Exactly the opposite of what you would want it to do.

I checked out the code and here's what I found:

/usr/local/pkg/tinydns.inc starting at line 557

if($row['loadbalance']) {
  if($row['pingthreshold'])
    $pingthreshold = $row['pingthreshold'];
  else
    $pingthreshold = "";
  if($row['wanpingthreshold'])
    $wanpingthreshold =     $row['wanpingthreshold'];
  else   
    $wanpingthreshold = "";
  $status = tinydns_get_record_status($row['failoverip'], $pingthreshold, $wanpingthreshold);
  if($status == "DOWN") {
    $record_data = tinydns_get_rowline_data($row['failoverip'], $domain['recordtype'], $ttl, $hostname, "", $domain['rdns'], $dist, $domain['src_port'], $d
omain['src_weight'], $domain['src_priority'], $domain['src_timestamp']);
    fwrite($fd, $record_data . "\n");
  }
}

I just changed DOWN to UP and everything works as it should.