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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:27:58 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple http servers - howto ?
Message-ID:  <199511142027.OAA29285@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511141945.MAA20656@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 14, 95 12:45:40 pm

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> The other thing that isn't taken into account is topology management for
> geographically seperate servers: no way to get the least loaded server
> cosest to your location to reduce overall network congestion.

Very true.

> Actually, someone could probably get a nice little paper out of building
> an inverse load preferential DNS (and load reporting daemons) if they
> wanted to.  8-).

Somebody already did, a while ago, but I don't have any references handy.
Something I saw once in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains....

... JG



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