5 Jan
2006
5 Jan
'06
8:33 p.m.
Hello Les,
Forgive me for this sidestep, but you are saying that Windows/IE actually ignores bad IP addresses if a site lists multiple IP's in a DNS lookup? I tried this approach for some redundancy a couple years ago and it didn't seem to work as you suggest. If it has indeed changed to work that way, this will help one of my clients immensely.
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Best regards,
Mickael
mailto:centos@silverservers.com
Thursday, January 5, 2006, 10:51:57 AM, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:18, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>> Exactomundo. Even Google has to accomodate such. That's why
>> their model is piecemeal and localizes as much as they can.
>>
>> But even Google has an ASN, AS15169, when it comes to their
>> combined presence.
> I think they know better than to try to flap BGP routing
> around to accomodate a failed computer at one site or
> another, though. Is that what you are suggesting?
> BGP would normally be used to handle routing over multiple
> paths to a fixed location and would change in response to
> the route availability. You can play tricks by shuffling
> a route to a completely new destination if a whole site fails
> but the minimum you could move would be a whole class
> C at a time, and some bad things will happen during the
> switch as different machines with the old IP's become visible.