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[VANILLA-L:904] Re: [VANILLA-L:902] Re: [VANILLA-L:900] metaserver
Quoting Sven Neuhaus (Sven.Neuhaus@de.uu.net):
> > So, here is my sales pitch again. Any chance Real Time could be a
> > backup metaserver location? Maybe even a round-robin DNS lookup would
> > work?=20
>
> I don't think round robin will help much if a server goes down.
Sure it would. If the main server is down and a client makes a request
to the down server it not respond, but if the user tries again the
request would go to the other server and be answered.
This assumes a user will try more then once, which is very typical.
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