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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 > -------------- -- ---- ---- --- - - - - - -- - - - - - - Tony Bourke [email protected]
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