Patrick W. Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 19, 2012, at 17:37 , Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Which is why the DNS supports multiple address records. Clients > > don't have to wait a minutes to fallover to a second address. One > > doesn't have to point all the addresses returned to the closest > > data center. One can get sub-second fail over in clients as HE > > code shows. > > I'm afraid I am not familiar with "HE code", so perhaps I am being silly > here.
Mark is referring to "happy eyeballs": http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-server-over-tcp Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first.
