dns based loadbalancing/failover

Sat Oct 6 22:13:37 UTC 2001

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."