[43352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Sat Oct 6 18:14:14 2001
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:13:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 6 Oct 2001, Paul Vixie 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."
Better tell that to those that have built successful businesses on what
you call "broken."
