One Domain; Multiple IPs.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9j2rvs$rb0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Brad Knowles  <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
>
>At 8:22 PM -0400 7/17/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
>>                      Why stifle an emerging technology just because
>>  of unfounded fear, uncertainty and dread?
>
>	Because it's an inherently bad idea, and mis-uses and abuses the 
>DNS in the wrong ways to solve problems that can be much better 
>solved with other techniques?

Lots of smart folks came up with these techniques.  What do you suggest to
replace it?  If all the servers are in the same data center you can use a
load balancing reverse proxy, but that's not a reasonable solution for
geographically diverse servers.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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