Re: bad idea?

["Devin P. Anderson" <devin () stargate net>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Randy Bush wrote:

> > > Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web
> > > servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load
> > > balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms
> > > with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the
> > > hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem? 
> > > I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always
> > > available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.
> >
> > Dude, saying things like that on this group is likely to get you executed.
> > Building a discontigious AS isn't the answer.
>
> i missed the part where he said discontiguous as.  please point it out to
> us.

'short of building a network connecting hosting facilities' and numbering
the servers with the sames addresses. Maybe I misunderstood. Its seems to
me that a better way to do it would be to use some product that goes
global load balancing.

later-

devin