Multi-master scenario

[Paul Vixie]

Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> writes:

> When a refresh occurs due to the Refresh timer going off, it will check 
> each master serially, and pull a transfer from one if it has a higher 
> serial number than the local copy.  It doesn't try them both 
> concurrently.

it will try them all, transfer only from a master offering the best currently
available serial number.  this is tricky given "sequence number arithmetic"
and 32-bit rounding.
-- 
Paul Vixie