[16305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Apr 19 20:40:53 1998
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:25:12 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980418024325.1098h-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>; from Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:44:20AM -0400
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:44:20AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > Why even use a different name? Round robin works fine, and if all the
> > registries participate in a cross-mirroring program, then all would be
> > well, no? If you mirror correctly, it doesn't much matter _which_ host
> > you hit.
>
> Except that if packets don't need to cross the ocean, why send them that
> way?
Now, c'mon, Jon; that's _way_ too obvious a reason. :-)
Tag them by continent; but mirror what's behind them _anyway_. Of
course, if DNS didn't see fit to _sort_ addresses, this would be a
problem, but (say it with me now:) that's a topic for another list.
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued
The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby,
Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592
Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
