Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Graydon Hoare ()" <admin@multinet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: redundant news systems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961002135234.8007G-100000@house.multinet.net> In-Reply-To: <199610021602.LAA05494@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > You still have total redundancy. You just do not necessarily have > 100% guaranteed connection attempts. But as far as I am concerned, > if I have a crash and people can not connect every 1 out of N times > (where N >= 2) then I am better off than if I have a crash and people > can not connect every 1 out of 1 times. > > So you do everything you can to minimize the chance of them > connecting to a dead address. question: why not ifconfig -alias the IP if/when a server dies? < 1 min DNS ttl = more anguish on the nameserver, non? I guess it would disturb the distribution of the round-robin... but for the length of your ttl, is it going to choke up #2? How big is this client? ;) -graydon ___________________________________________________________________________ There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.home | help
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