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Re: bad idea?

  • From: tony bourke
  • Date: Wed Jul 05 14:17:34 2000

actually, Foundry has a global solution based on BGP, check them out.

There is a load-balancing mailing list, which addresses such issues.

http://vegan.net/lb is the info to sign up.

Tony

On
Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremiah Kristal 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.
> 
> Jeremiah 
> being a customer stinks
> 

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