Re: DNS round-robin for multiple proxies

From: Nick Hilliard (nick_at_foobar#delete2email#.org)
Date: 06/18/03 

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:23:24 +0100

Tom wrote:
> We have tried using Windows load-balancing for this, but have found
> implementation difficulties and performance problems, hence our
> thoughts of using DNS round-robin.

Ugh, horrible. You only do that if you're Microsoft and you have a
political point to make.

> My question - are other corporations using this solution for users'
> browsing? If so, does it work well?

Get a content redirector of one form or another. This will cope with
things like server outages, server load, sticky sessions, ssl and a
whole lot more.

Nick

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