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Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?]
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:29:38 -0400
On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:07 , "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:My question above is asking Mark how you guarantee the user/application selects the A record closest to them and only use the other A record when the closer one is unavailable.I understand - my point was that folks using a GSLB-type solution would generally include availability probing in the GSLB stack, so that a given instance won't be included in answers if it's locally unavailable
How does that allow for a long TTL? If you set a 3600 second TTL when the DC is up, and the DC goes down 2 seconds later, what do you do?
(obviously, the GSLB can't know about all path elements between the querying resolver and the desired server/service).
Says who? :) -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?, (continued)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 18)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Chris Woodfield (Aug 19)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Mark Andrews (Aug 19)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? William Herrin (Aug 19)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Jimmy Hess (Aug 19)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Gary Buhrmaster (Aug 19)
- Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Dobbins, Roland (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Dobbins, Roland (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Mark Andrews (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Chris Adams (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Shumon Huque (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
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- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tim Chown (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Nick Hilliard (Aug 20)