At 3:05 PM +0000 7/18/01, Barry Margolin wrote:
> Lots of smart folks came up with these techniques. What do you suggest to
> replace it? If all the servers are in the same data center you can use a
> load balancing reverse proxy, but that's not a reasonable solution for
> geographically diverse servers.
I have stated my preference many times for using routing
techniques (anycasting, whatever) to find the closest server farm
that serves a particular IP address, and then using load-balancing
switches on that IP address to distribute the load locally.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
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