On Jan 11, 2008 10:05 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]
> Akamai has a globally distributed server network. It maps users to > these servers depending on a variety of factors such as geographic location, > network latency, server load etc. One of the ways this works is that > by recomputing the DNS entries based on these. As such factors are > highly variable, the TTL is small so that users are mapped to the most > optimal server everytime. I know about Akamai stuff, but my point is other Akamai clients like www.yahoo.com, www.microsoft.com, msdn.microsoft.com, which're probably more popular than intel.com, has their TTL set to 300, 3600 etc. So my point is whats the need of TTL of 60s for such less popular site. By setting it to very low TTL, they're just causing users to do DNS queries more often. Anyways, I've not seen anyone with such low TTL except DynDNS.com, thats it. > > Shameless plug follows :-) > I agree with Vipul. Akamai does fairly interesting stuff. I also agree with Akamai doing really interesting stuff :) Thanks for the replies. -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
