RE: Geographic loadbalancing

2009-01-26 Thread John Lauro
I am not sure it would be called a bad idea, just not an effective one... don't expect it to help much when an ISP is down for only an hour. Most clients do not honor low TTL values, especially if they are revisiting the site without closing the browser. I would like to hear anyone using

Re[2]: Geographic loadbalancing

2009-01-26 Thread Ross West
JL I would like to hear anyone using anycast with TCP. What if two servers are JL equal distance. Wouldn't you have a fair chance of equal 50% packets going JL each way, killing tcp state connections. The more servers out there JL advertising the same IP, the more likely you will have cases of