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 -- +-------------------+---------------------+------------------------+ | Nathan Lutchansky | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Lithium Technologies | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's | | business on earth... I like a state of continual becoming, | | with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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