Re: Citrix ICA - Published apps

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At 10:42 AM 4/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
> "Schultz, Ken" wrote:
> > Has anyone actually managed to make a Citrix Metaframe server - published
Hi!

I've been having the same problem as the other guy described and found out
exactly what you mention.  But I'm intrigued by your solution here:

> > We have been able to get access to the Metaframe server directly, but are
> > having one hell of a time trying to get access to the published app.
>
> For Internet access to Citrix, I've found it much easier to use DNS
> round robin. This is load sharing instead of load balancing but from my
> experience its not all that less inefficient compared to the algorithm
> use by Citrix to determine server load. If you create a number of "A"
> records which use the same name as the published app (i.e.
> msword.bohica.edu), a remote client will resolve this and find the
> server farm.

Care to elaborate and may be give a few exemples?  It could be very interesting!