Re: Huge Email Service
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 08:51:45AM -0500, Chris Wagner wrote:
> >I think we all know, that DNS "load-balancing" doesn't scale too good.
>
> It doesn't have to. For the type of setup he had, adding one R-R entry
> doubled his capacity. Three entries tripled it, etc. Assuming he did or
> will or would do that. :) Anybody have an idea of the upper limit of R-R
> efficacy? CNN has 18 R-R entries and their website seems to work ok. (cnn.com)
No, adding one R-R doesn't double the capacity, I wish it would
with all the caching and stupid resolver subsystems out there,
you won't get true roundrobin...
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