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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Multiple http servers - howto ?
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:27:58 -0700 (MST)
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> I have read that some http servers (probably some machines at NCSA)
> are actually a cluster of servers attached to the same ethernet. Client
> transparently contact one of the servers. I would like to know how this
> is achieved, e.g.
> 
>   i) by supplying different IP translations for the same name;
>  ii) by a clever use of ARP
> iii) by some other technique which I do not know

#1.  Via DNS.  The requesting hosts are rotored through a list of the
addresses.

It isn't a very good scheme, mostly because caching exists.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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