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Re: bad idea?


From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:43:33 -0400

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:

answer it continues to use the same IP, which is routed normally. I
believe this is how's Akamai load balancer works (try looking up
www.yahoo.com from a name server on the left coast and on the right
coast). I see absolutily nothing wrong with using DNS in this manner.

Bad example; a couple weeks ago, it was unavailable to many people for
a couple of days.  :-)

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