On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:35:29AM -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure whether this is custom DNS software written by BBC, or
> > written by Sun who supplied the load-balancing clustering system to BBC.
> > I'm guessing BBC wrote it, because otherwise we'd be seeing this problem
> > on other sites that use Sun clusters, and AFAIK, BBC is the only one.
> 
> i've come accross the problem elsewhere. it's probably written custom for
> the BBC, in which case it'll be harder to get them to fix it.

Yes, unfortunately.  Maybe deployment in Asia will entice them to fix it 
before it becomes a problem for a large number of their UK users.

> sadly, we're a small group of users, and probably the only ones to
> complain, let alone see the problem.

But if we ALL complain, we appear to be a large group of users.  ;-)

> my thought/solution to this problem is just mine, and is just temporary.
> the only other solution i've found to be effective is to grab the host
> info through the native "host" command, or forcing a request for an "A"
> record..

I'll probably just create a fake bbc.net.uk file on our DNS servers with A 
records for www.bbc.net.uk and newswww.bbc.net.uk copied from host -t a 
lookups.

Is anybody aware of any other hosts in the bbc.net.uk domain that I should 
kludge in?  -Nathan

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