Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover

[Mary Grace <nanog () diskserv com>]

Hrmm, no, that is called "Akamai", isn't it?  :-)

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Mary Grace
mary () ms edu


At 01:20 PM 10/6/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > The really neat thing is that you can do this with any nameserver. Install
> > N nameservers and connect each of them to one of your ISPs. These
> > nameservers are all masters, and all contain different data. 
>
> If you have several nameservers all pretending to be masters for some zone
> but offering different responses based on IP locality, predictive
performance,
> or any other criteria, then the name for this is: "broken."