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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org>
To:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
Cc:        LutzRab@omc.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Loadbalance webservers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908021740300.6318-100000@snafu.adept.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990802091321.A18716@best.com>

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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Jan B. Koum  wrote:

> 	I think right now we got about 10 machines serving for www main site
> using DNS load balancing... (just 'nslookup www.yahoo.com')

Curious...  have you guys modified DNS in some way, or do you just do
standard round-robin?  I've read about DNS-based approaches with low TTLs
to avoid excessive caching of any single record, but how does such an
approach handle downed servers w/o modification?

Later,
--mike




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