[VANILLA-L:967] Re: Metaserver Replication

To: vanilla-l@us.netrek.org
Subject: [VANILLA-L:967] Re: Metaserver Replication
From: Sven Neuhaus <Sven.Neuhaus@de.uu.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 10:44:06 +0200
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> > a) run with three or more metaservers,
> 
> I volunteer to be one.

Cool.

> > 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?

This shouldn't be necessary. If you just put multiple A-Records into
the zone file, it will spit them out in random order, allowing the
clients to probe one after another.

> > 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.

I can setup a record for keyserver.netrek.org or something that only points
to the master server.

-Sven


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