Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:57:22 +0000 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, tom@sdf.com, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk Cc: Sarnoff.COM!rminnich@minas-tirith.pol.ru, tarkhil@minas-tirith.pol.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Cluster? Message-ID: <E0yAdxT-0000T7-00@oak65.doc.ic.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com "RE: Cluster?" (Mar 5, 11:49am)
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On Mar 5, 11:49am, sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote:
} Subject: RE: Cluster?
> > address spaces of all the others. I agree that DNS has fault
> > tolerant
> > capabilities but I wouldn't call them excellent, its annoying to have
> > to
> > wait for requests to the primary to time out before the resolver
> > library
> > starts hitting on the secondaries.
> >
> I have a simple solution for this :-) A daemon that every
> N minutes sends a request to all DNS servers listed and
> moves the one from which it got the first reply to the
> first position in this file. Of course, it will make
> additional overhead but it will be highly portable and do
> not touch any internals of already compiled programs.
Well, thats a nice hack, but it doesn't solve the problem of dynamic
DNS, also this kind of functionality should be part of the
resolver library.
[ Note: This is the last email on which I will CC you all, sorry
for cluttering up your mailboxes, I'm sure the thread
can continue in -hackers ]
Niall
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