you are correct, deja has about 30 frontline servers running squid for
load quasi-balancing. if one of the frontline boxes go down it
powercycles into a redirecting state. it's been very successful.
by the way, at dell's frank erwin center event the other day i heard
him say that "clustering was the architecture of the new millenium."
he means clustering in this way, not in the beowulf way.
"Mark N. Hattarki" wrote:
> Gates is using doublespeak of course. What I think gates alluding to is
> this: When a single server goes down, another machine needs to take it's
> place seemlessly.
>
> This is no more a unix problem than an nt problem (in fact it's more a nt
> problem since nt is less reliable). But, both people have come up with
> workable schemes for a lot of systems (www.deja.com for linux,
> www.yahoo.com for bsd, www.microsoft.com for nt). These are all clusters
> of machines with no single point of failure (assuming I understand their
> setups correctly).
>
> If he's claiming that microsoft is beating the unix world in doing this
> straight out of the box, he's either lying of very misguided (prolly the
> former).
>
> namaste,
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, J.W. Scott wrote:
>
> > I guess Bill is disillusioned enough to think that M$'s single point of
> > failure is that it didn't heed the old warning about those who don't know
> > Unix being doomed to recreate it poorly. But I don't see how any level of
> > disillusionment could possibly let a person think that W2K (it's proper
> > name) could make reparations for this...Then again, I'm probably just
> > being a disillusioned linux zealot.
> > jw
> > (PS: VNC is really cool! Go AT&T!)
> >
> > --
> > J. W. Scott GeoCel International
> > Developer / BFD (Big Fscking Dork)
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> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brandon W. Beasley wrote:
> >
> > > Gates uttered the following Newspeak at the Dell ego support group
> > > yesterday:
> > >
> > > "[Windows 2000] should eliminate the UNIX single point of failure
> > > issue."
> > >
> > > What the hell does that mean? "UNIX single point of failure"?
> > >
> > > Is that the lack of a unified UNIX platform? Or what?
> > >
> > > Yours truly,
> > >
> > > The Uninitiated.
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