[43356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Sat Oct 6 20:07:04 2001
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 06 Oct 2001 20:06:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: Paul Vixie's message of "06 Oct 2001 14:26:51 -0700"
Message-ID: <87zo74nwjd.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> writes:
> > Hrmm, no, that is called "Akamai", isn't it? :-)
>
> I wouldn't presume to speak about Akamai's methods. Perhaps Avi's listening.
It's reasonable to assume that Akamai is deterministic, and is not
dependent on the "Jeopardy Method" (who's-quicker-on-the-buzzer) that
Bert Hubert asked in an earlier message. Stating more than that is
above my pay grade.
If you insist on deploying the Jeopardy Method, please remember to
phrase your reply to a DNS query in the form of a question:
rs@bifrost [2] % dig @192.148.252.10 19.252.148.192.in-addr.arpa. any
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
19.252.148.192.in-addr.arpa. 5M IN PTR what.is.dhcp-19.seastrom.com.
...
---Rob
