CName Terminology Question

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:11:19PM +0200, Johnny Fribert Lauridsen wrote:
> Luckily,
> many providers and companies deploys some load balancing/redundancy devices in front of their server farms, so that
> they can change addresses, add new servers, remove servers, etc., on flight, without having to
> care about DNS.  ...

"many" may be a slight exaggeration.  But this is a useful technique.
You still have to care about DNS, though.  ;-)  You do want to be able
to address the machines individually, for management purposes.

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