Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:11:04 -0700 From: perry@zso.dec.com (Reginald Perry) To: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FA@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> In-Reply-To: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD06BA4E@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com>
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Thats not enough addresses. They supposedly have over 40 servers. So they still could be using this hiding mechanism. But notice that it clearly takes so much of a hit on an individual set of servers that they have to group them in such a way as to round-robin through 11 IP addresses. :-) -Reggie -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andre Oppermann Sent: Sunday, October 04, 1998 2:15 PM To: Alex Perel Cc: Dag-Erling C. Smxrgrav; James D. Butt; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Alex Perel wrote: > > On 4 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > > > "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net> writes: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > Yuck. Who are these Weak & Wanker people anyway? This is so > > warm-n-fuzzy-feel-good I might just puke. > > What really bugs the hell out of me is Microsoft's attitude that > they invented load balancing solutions using a single IP. I think someone > has to wake them up to the realities of NAT, and products such as Cisco's > LocalDirector (which btw can do the job96237589235x better than any NT > server ever could). Sigle IP? It looks like they have failed... nothing new... % nslookup www.microsoft.com Server: barbarella.pipeline.ch Address: 195.134.128.59 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.microsoft.com Addresses: 207.46.130.149, 207.46.130.150, 207.46.131.13, 207.46.131.15 207.46.131.16, 207.46.131.135, 207.46.131.137, 207.46.130.14, 207.46.130.15 207.46.130.138, 207.46.130.139 > Oh and speaking of 100% availability, none of my machines get > unscheduled downtime.. hmmm.. I wonder why Microsoft's do. They run bugs... haha... -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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