On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Zippy Zeppoli <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi List, > I was wondering, how does Necko (if thats the proper layer) handle DNS > round robin. > If it hits a webserver which resolves but times out, will it automatically > fail over to the other IP? > What are the stats for the timeout? > > PS - I think using only DNS round robin as a failover method is a pisspoor > idea, unless you manage your own DNS. > > It's my understanding that DNS resolution, caching, and failover are all handled at the operating system layer, not the application layer. gethostbyname(), getaddrinfo(), etc. are the APIs through which applications retrieve DNS info. eric _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
