load-balancing in DNS using two A records

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20111221083337.GB5238 at fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes:
> >In message <20111220182222.GA3085 at fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas write
> s:
> >> Long time ago when we were trying to have multiple web servers for
> >> redundancy and balancing, we have found that multiple IP's is not a
> >> good solution (parts of web pages didn't load). We selected L3
> >> switches then...
> 
> On 21.12.11 09:26, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >Which is really the result of badly designed clients.  Clients are getting
> >better with address affinity and fast failover on unreachable servers.
> 
> It's been long time ago (~10 years). And even if they did failover, 30s 
> (tcp connection timeout) delays are very ugly when loading a web page.

Indeed.  150-250ms [1] is a more realistic timeout for starting a second
connection attempt.  You use the connection which completes first and
close the others if they complete.

Mark

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-07
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