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From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:57:22 +0000
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
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Niall

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