Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 11:05:32 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redundant news systems Message-ID: <199610022105.LAA03619@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> "Re: redundant news systems" (Oct 2, 2:08pm)
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} } > < 1 min DNS ttl = more anguish on the nameserver, non? I guess it would } > disturb the distribution of the round-robin... but for the length of } > your ttl, is it going to choke up #2? } > How big is this client? ;) } } I don't care too much about anguish on the nameserver, if it can't handle } a dozen lookups per second (of the same record!) it needs to be rewritten } anyways. } Everyone should be concerned with reducing network traffic. DNS is cached by everyone and everything, because although it seems short and sweet, it's often slow. Loading down nameservers unnecessarily makes matters worse. You and your systems aren't the only ones affected. Richard
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