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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 [email protected] 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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