Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?

Sat Apr 23 22:29:04 UTC 2005

* haesu at towardex.com (James) [Sat 23 Apr 2005, 23:10 CEST]:
> With proliferation of high speed circuits and continuing trend of lower
> cost of bandwidth, PPLB is becoming more obsolete for many people that
> implemented it in the past.  What is becoming more common is non-PPLB
> based setup, such as flow or destination based load balancing, et al
> to group high capacity circuits (i.e. when gig-e's aren't enough and
> 10GbE is too much of a capex for an immediate upgrade).

Exactly.  Apparently it's little bother for router vendors to reuse the
algorithms they wrote to properly support 802.3ad (link aggregation; the
spec demands that `conversations' be kept on the same wire) for load
balancing over multiple IP paths.

Regards,

	-- Niels.