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Re: bad idea?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Wed Jul 5 13:45:56 2000

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:43:33 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>=20
> answer it continues to use the same IP, which is routed normally. I
> believe this is how's Akamai load balancer works (try looking up
> www.yahoo.com from a name server on the left coast and on the right
> coast). I see absolutily nothing wrong with using DNS in this manner.

Bad example; a couple weeks ago, it was unavailable to many people for
a couple of days.  :-)


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