DNS Failover

[Maria Iano]

I think you may have misread my message. The stat for hits was per day, but the unique visitors stat was per month. The particular site I mentioned contains information and entertainment spread amongst different pages, and clients tend to stay on the site and travel around the different pages for quite a while.

Maria

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of David Botham
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:19 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: DNS Failover
> 
> bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 10/14/2004 12:40:24 PM:
> > Pete,
> > 
> > It is still the case that our GSLBs work pretty well. I'm not just 
> saying that
> > from the point of view of using my own browser. When we use the GSLBs
> to 
> 
> > redirect traffic for our sites, we can see that the traffic does
> indeed 
> get redirected. 
> > 
> > For example, one of our sites gets over a million hits per day from
> all 
> over 
> > the world. It gets over one million monthly unique visitors. When the
> IP 
> 
> 
> To Pete's point:  As your hits are coming from a large number of unique 
> hits, that implies unique brower sessions, and therefore implies that
> that 
> your users will not have cached information from your glsb's and this
> type 
> of traffic might not be problematic.
> 
> However, the ones you have to worry about are those people that are not 
> unique and have a browser cached answer.  These people will have the 
> problem that Pete describes. 
> 
> With the large number of unique connections your site takes you can
> expect 
> to see the results you have described.  As will all technical caveats,
> it 
> is important to evaluate your particular circumstances and determine the
> 
> potential impact to your situation.
> 
> 
> Just my $.02.
> 
> 
> Thank,
> 
> Dave...
> 
> 
> > address handed out for that site by the GSLBs is changed, the change 
> takes 
> > effect in the traffic to the site extremely quickly and effectively.
> So 
> that 
> > gives a good kind of average over the various different browsers and 
> resolvers
> > throughout the world.
> > 
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