Can one mirror a web server ?

[Pete Tenereillo]

Jim, I agree the default TCP timeout of 1 minute on Netscape/Firefox seems 
high... a good question to post over there. I also agree that  "works like a 
charm" was stretching it. Still better than counting on BGP (or nothing) 
though, wouldn't you agree?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at yahoo.com>
To: "Pete Tenereillo" <pt_bind at hotmail.com>
Cc: "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>; 
<comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Can one mirror a web server ?


> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:16 -0800, Pete Tenereillo wrote:
>> Kevin, why do call out the browser multiple A record failover process as
>> "slow"? Slow relative to what? It takes between 12 and 21 seconds with IE 
>> at
>> the default settings (clearly the most common, time depends on version), 
>> and
>> a minute or so with Netscape (and I think FireFox). In neither case is a
>> "site unavailable" type dialog box displayed to the user. It just 
>> silently
>> connects. I thought that was the intent of multiple A records??? Seems to 
>> me
>> it works like a charm.
>
> Working like a charm is a bit of a stretch with Firefox on Linux (kudos
> to IE for getting it right).  Firefox seems to wait at least a minute or
> more, and then forgets the IP address that worked and retries from the
> top of the list when navigating to another page on the same hostname.
> Firefox makes it impossible to consider it working or charming. ;-)  I
> will however retract my earlier statement that this yields a page
> timeout.
>
> -Jim P.
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