dns based loadbalancing/failover

Sat Oct 6 23:40:07 UTC 2001

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:20:27PM -0700, 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."

I suppose you don't do split-horizon DNS, then?

Greetz, Peter
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