On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote:
With load balancing, traffic can get routed down a non-functional
path while routing takes place over the other one - BBN did that
to us once, was very entertaining).
Ah yes, I'll always have a special place in my heart for those
Localdirectors
DGA> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:32:19 -0400
DGA> From: David G. Andersen
DGA> The whole problem with only listing two anycast servers is that
DGA> you leave yourself vulnerable to other kinds of faults. Your
DGA> upstream ISP fat-fingers "ip route 64.94.110.11 null0" and
DGA> accidentally blitze
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote:
> > Yes, I hope that UltraDNS implements something like this, if they have not
> > already. It's still not a guarantee that things will get withdrawn -- or be
> > reachable, even if working but not withdrawn -- in case of a problem. That
> > still l
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:38:18PM -0400, Todd Vierling quacked:
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:
>
> : EBD> That's why one uses a daemon with main loop including
> : EBD> something like:
> : EBD>
> : EBD>success = 1 ;
> : EBD>for ( i = checklist ; i->callback != NULL
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:
: EBD> That's why one uses a daemon with main loop including
: EBD> something like:
: EBD>
: EBD> success = 0 ;
: EBD> for ( i = checklist ; i->callback != NULL ; i++ )
: EBD> success &= i->callback(foo) ;
: EBD> if ( success )
: EBD> s
EBD> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:01:07 + (GMT)
EBD> From: E.B. Dreger
EBD> That's why one uses a daemon with main loop including
EBD> something like:
EBD>
EBD>success = 0 ;
EBD>for ( i = checklist ; i->callback != NULL ; i++ )
EBD>success &= i->callback(foo) ;
EBD>if (
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:47:01 -0400
> From: Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
> And, I might add, in the case of a highly complex anycast
> application, you will need to check not only for correctness,
> but for timeliness.
In a realtime system, something that is late is considered
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