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Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Grace)
Sat Oct 6 16:45:36 2001

Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 16:44:57 -0400
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Hrmm, no, that is called "Akamai", isn't it?  :-)

... still collecting Heirloom-Quality Specimens of Pre-Owned Mirror-Image
Cache Routers for our Museum of Internet Treasures,  drop us a line if you
still have any available....

Mary Grace
mary@ms.edu


At 01:20 PM 10/6/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> 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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