You got it! It's those darn application programmers! :-) Realistically it would make sense for browsers to try alternate DNS info, but I guess there's no crying over spilt milk. -- James Smith, CCNA Network/System Administrator DXSTORM.COM http://www.dxstorm.com/ DXSTORM Inc. 2140 Winston Park Drive, Suite 203 Oakville, ON, CA L6H 5V5 Tel: 905-829-3389 (email preferred) Fax: 905-829-5692 1-877-DXSTORM (1-877-397-8676) On 4 Dec 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sat, 04 December 1999, James Smith wrote:
internetsecure to type in the credit card. The problem with Round-Robin DNS is the possibility of the consumer's web browser picking up an IP address of a server that is down. If it was a real payment gateway, your
Finally, a problem I can agree with. Netscape's browser did some interesting things for application reliability when accessing home.netscape.com. But for other web sites it seems to be one strike and you're out. Other browsers followed their lead. Actually, I think Mosiac was first, so the programmer meme was already formed. The original CERN web browser did try alternate A records. The CERN browser had a problem handling interrupts when the user got tired of waiting, so the Mosaic "error-recovery" method of the user clicking on refresh until it finally worked seemed like an improvement.
The law of unintended consequences?
The application programmers will say its the networks fault. The network engineers will say its the applications fault. And the user says a pox on all your houses.