From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 2 08:19:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14700 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blacksun.reef.com (blacksun.REEF.COM [199.2.91.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA14692 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from james@localhost) by blacksun.reef.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08479; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:15:27 -0700 (PDT) From: james@blacksun.reef.com (James Buszard-Welcher) Message-Id: <9610020815.ZM8477@blacksun.reef.com> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:15:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: Joe Greco "Re: RAID Controller Product" (Oct 2, 6:36am) References: <199610021327.IAA05083@brasil.moneng.mei.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: Joe Greco , cassy@loop.com (Cassandra Perkins) Subject: Re: RAID Controller Product Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wouldn't there be a delay for clients still trying to reach your news server? If they have cached an IP address for news.wherever.com, and then you took it out of Round Robin, would there still be a finite number of clients trying to reach that IP address? (Assuming they aren't looking to your nameserver and you didn't HUP it). I'm pretty sure that Netscape doesn't (or at least didn't with 2.0) query the nameserver each time... On Oct 2, 6:36am, Joe Greco wrote: > Subject: Re: RAID Controller Product > > Hello.... > > [snip] > > Incidental: I have set up a client with such a distributed news system > and it works extremely well, is very scalable, and it is really cool > to be able to take a machine out of the DNS roundrobin when it needs > to be serviced, etc... (the cluster is carefully overengineered so that > they have 'N+1' news servers where N is the number they really need). > > Can you say 'zero service interruption'. > > ... JG >-- End of excerpt from Joe Greco -- James Buszard-Welcher | ph. (847) 729-8600 | "There is water on the bottom Silicon Reef, Inc. | FAX (847) 729-1560 | of the ocean" - David Byrne