From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 2 10:57:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24674 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from house.multinet.net (house.multinet.net [204.138.173.37]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24668 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from graydon@localhost) by house.multinet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA18140; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:57:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Graydon Hoare ()" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: redundant news systems In-Reply-To: <199610021602.LAA05494@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.