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Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover


From: rs () seastrom com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 06 Oct 2001 20:06:30 -0400



Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com> writes:

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

I wouldn't presume to speak about Akamai's methods.  Perhaps Avi's listening.

It's reasonable to assume that Akamai is deterministic, and is not
dependent on the "Jeopardy Method" (who's-quicker-on-the-buzzer) that
Bert Hubert asked in an earlier message.  Stating more than that is
above my pay grade.

If you insist on deploying the Jeopardy Method, please remember to
phrase your reply to a DNS query in the form of a question:

rs@bifrost [2] % dig @192.148.252.10 19.252.148.192.in-addr.arpa. any
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
19.252.148.192.in-addr.arpa.  5M IN PTR  what.is.dhcp-19.seastrom.com.
...

                                        ---Rob


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