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Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Oct 6 16:21:01 2001

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 06 Oct 2001 13:20:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: ahu@ds9a.nl's message of "6 Oct 2001 10:19:18 -0700"
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> The really neat thing is that you can do this with any nameserver. Install
> N nameservers and connect each of them to one of your ISPs. These
> nameservers are all masters, and all contain different data. 

If you have several nameservers all pretending to be masters for some zone
but offering different responses based on IP locality, predictive performance,
or any other criteria, then the name for this is: "broken."

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