[VANILLA-L:955] Re: [VANILLA-L:952] Metaserver Replication

To: vanilla-l@us.netrek.org
Subject: [VANILLA-L:955] Re: [VANILLA-L:952] Metaserver Replication
From: "Carlos Y. Villalpando" <unbelver@brain.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <35C78E88.4AE254D9@digital.com> from "James Cameron" at Aug 4, 98 10:43:20 pm
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> a) run with three or more metaservers,

I volunteer to be one.


> b) produce a COW patch that will fallback to another metaserver on
> failure to connect,

Round robin DNS with tiny TTLs any better?  Can netrek.org handle the
load of tiny TTLs?

> c) continue to use just ONE metaserver for key distribution,

Good. But that might kill the round-robin DNS idea unless the servers
grab it from the non-netrek.org domain anme.

--Carlos V.
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