RE: Second Mirror in India
| From: | James Cox | Date: | Sun, 16 Feb 2003 03:05:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: Second Mirror in India | ||
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> It's a good idea but a second link will work better in this case.
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> Load balancing through the a cname entry is a DNS based solution. Any
> DNS based solution would be cached at the ISP end. This would mean if
> the first IP is down then the ISP would not request for the second ip
> until 24 hrs (cache time expiry).
I agree, a second (in2) address is more advisable.
--james