[16262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 17 12:40:45 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:25:49 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804171625.QAA14444@genbsd.genuity.net>; from Barry Dykes <bdykes@genuity.net> on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:25:41AM -0700
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:25:41AM -0700, Barry Dykes wrote:
> Round robin works fine if they are all up. Otherwise one goes down,
> you cache the name, and you keep trying to reach the downed server
> until it comes up or the name times out of the cache. Of course if you
> have 4 servers being round robin-ed then this only affects 25% of all
> queries :)
You're right, of course. This seems like a fairly fundamental bit
o'breakage to have lasted this long. This is the apps fault, of
course, unless I vastly misunderstand DNS... but that is a topic for
another list.
Cheers,
-- jra
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