[FX.php List] [OFF] Looking for information about a load-balancing system

[Bob Patin]

Ouch... that sucks then.

What I think I had found a couple of years ago was a machine that would relay an incoming request to a 2nd server, without actually doing any DNS magic, and the user can't tell the difference.

The thing is that this happens so rarely that I can't imagine why this client is even fretting... but who am I to question, I suppose... :)

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On Jun 15, 2012, at 3:27 PM, John May wrote:

> Note that DNS failover isn't fullproof, as some ISPs (read AOL) do not respect the TTL settings in DNS servers and can take up to 24 hours to refresh their caches.
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> 	- John
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