North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Instant chats and central servers
Sean, There's a bunch of machines for AIM, spread out across the AOLosphere... there is no one server that will take down the service. (That's for the Oscar stuff; the TOC stuff, which the open messengers use, is also clustered in the back end, but there is that One Server You Must Talk To(tm).) I imagine the other services are similar. -Dave On 5/8/2001 at 11:35:27 -0700, Sean Donelan said: > > A question (and a test to see if I'm still subscribed) > > The various instant messenging services, such as AIM, ICQ, Microsoft, > Yahoo, other Messenger uses a central server to manage "presence". > > No central server appears to mean no instant messages, am I correct? > > What does this have to do with NANOG, apparently it is becoming more > common for backbone NOC folks to communicate with their friends in > other NOCs via one of these instant chat programs. I didn't realize > how common it was until I was informed about it last month when AOL/AIM > had difficulties. This month Yahoo Messenger had power difficulties, > which disrupted their central servers. > > If folks are using this these services for real-time communications, > should we be trying to improve their reliability? Or is this just a > "feature" of how presence services work. > > -- Dave Israel Senior Manager, IP Backbone Intermedia Business Internet
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