- From: <Bernhard.Schneck@physik.tu-muenchen.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 13:10:32 +0200
- To: www-proxy@www10.w3.org
> [... about what to do when the primary proxy server fails ...] What's wrong with putting two A records in the DNS? I didn't check the source of any WWW browser, but I hope they'd cope with multi-homed servers. If a request to one address times out, they should automagically switch to the secondary address ... % setenv http_proxy http://http-proxy/ % www DNS zone file: server1 IN A 1.2.3.4 server2 IN A 1.2.3.5 http-proxy IN A 1.2.3.4 IN A 1.2.3.5 This should also distribute the load between the two servers, as newer nameserver implementations (at least BIND) shuffle the addresses. Of course, both servers will have different caches, which is suboptimal, but I don't think this will hurt too much. \Bernhard.
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