From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 4 17:14:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23655 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23625 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perry@zso.dec.com) Received: from rust.zso.dec.com (rust.zso.dec.com [16.64.0.1]) by mail13.digital.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/WV1.0g) with SMTP id UAA10415 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:13:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wakko.zso.dec.com by rust.zso.dec.com (5.65/DECwest-CLUSTRIX-mwd-12Dec94) id AA09271; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:13:58 -0700 From: perry@zso.dec.com (Reginald Perry) To: Subject: RE: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:11:04 -0700 Message-Id: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FA@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD06BA4E@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" 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