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Re: ARIN Services
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:25:49 -0400
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:25:41AM -0700, Barry Dykes wrote:
Round robin works fine if they are all up. Otherwise one goes down, you cache the name, and you keep trying to reach the downed server until it comes up or the name times out of the cache. Of course if you have 4 servers being round robin-ed then this only affects 25% of all queries :)
You're right, of course. This seems like a fairly fundamental bit o'breakage to have lasted this long. This is the apps fault, of course, unless I vastly misunderstand DNS... but that is a topic for another list. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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