Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
On Aug 19, 2012, at 17:37 , Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
Which is why the DNS supports multiple address records. Clients don't have to wait a minutes to fallover to a second address. One doesn't have to point all the addresses returned to the closest data center. One can get sub-second fail over in clients as HE code shows.
I'm afraid I am not familiar with "HE code", so perhaps I am being silly here.
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