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Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?


From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:29:04 +0200


* haesu () towardex com (James) [Sat 23 Apr 2005, 23:10 CEST]:
With proliferation of high speed circuits and continuing trend of lower
cost of bandwidth, PPLB is becoming more obsolete for many people that
implemented it in the past.  What is becoming more common is non-PPLB
based setup, such as flow or destination based load balancing, et al
to group high capacity circuits (i.e. when gig-e's aren't enough and
10GbE is too much of a capex for an immediate upgrade).

Exactly.  Apparently it's little bother for router vendors to reuse the
algorithms they wrote to properly support 802.3ad (link aggregation; the
spec demands that `conversations' be kept on the same wire) for load
balancing over multiple IP paths.

Regards,


        -- Niels.


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