On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:44:20AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Why even use a different name? Round robin works fine, and if all the registries participate in a cross-mirroring program, then all would be well, no? If you mirror correctly, it doesn't much matter _which_ host you hit.
Except that if packets don't need to cross the ocean, why send them that way?
Now, c'mon, Jon; that's _way_ too obvious a reason. :-) Tag them by continent; but mirror what's behind them _anyway_. Of course, if DNS didn't see fit to _sort_ addresses, this would be a problem, but (say it with me now:) that's a topic for another list. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com