Linux HA may not be the best choice in your situation. [CentOS]High Availability using 2 sites

Fri Jan 6 02:15:38 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:33, Tim Edwards wrote:
> > I believe the original poster was talking about the Internet,
> > but I could be wrong.
> 
> Yes I am talking about the Internet, not an Intranet. Thanks for all 
> your replies, especially Brian, they've helped me see more clearly what 
> the options are. I'd already given up on Round Robin or any other kind 
> of DNS 'solution' before I posted, after reading this: 
> http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-round-robin-is-useless.html

That page seems to be written with the premises that all clients
are in the same location, served by the same dns cache which
certainly won't be the case on the internet, and that browsers
don't try anything but the first address in the DNS response
which isn't true either, and that statistically distributing
the load among servers isn't useful.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com