[26113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to achieve application reliability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Smith)
Sun Dec 5 03:53:03 1999
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:05:21 -0500 (EST)
From: James Smith <jsmith@dxstorm.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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You got it! It's those darn application programmers! :-) Realistically it
would make sense for browsers to try alternate DNS info, but I guess
there's no crying over spilt milk.
--
James Smith, CCNA
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On 4 Dec 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 December 1999, James Smith wrote:
> > internetsecure to type in the credit card. The problem with Round-Robin
> > DNS is the possibility of the consumer's web browser picking up an IP
> > address of a server that is down. If it was a real payment gateway, your
>
> Finally, a problem I can agree with. Netscape's browser did some interesting
> things for application reliability when accessing home.netscape.com. But for
> other web sites it seems to be one strike and you're out. Other browsers
> followed their lead. Actually, I think Mosiac was first, so the programmer
> meme was already formed. The original CERN web browser did try alternate A
> records. The CERN browser had a problem handling interrupts when the user
> got tired of waiting, so the Mosaic "error-recovery" method of the user
> clicking on refresh until it finally worked seemed like an improvement.
>
> The law of unintended consequences?
>
> The application programmers will say its the networks fault. The network
> engineers will say its the applications fault. And the user says a pox
> on all your houses.
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