5 Jul
2000
5 Jul
'00
5:43 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
answer it continues to use the same IP, which is routed normally. I believe this is how's Akamai load balancer works (try looking up www.yahoo.com from a name server on the left coast and on the right coast). I see absolutily nothing wrong with using DNS in this manner.
Bad example; a couple weeks ago, it was unavailable to many people for a couple of days. :-)