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From: cire@CLASH.CISCO.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Multiple TCP/IP servers on one host
Message-ID: <8809230239.AA15029@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 12 Sep 88 19:51:25 GMT
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Having a domain server randomize the responses for a given host
strikes me as something of a round about way of achieving the
desired solution.  Certainly it will work.  However it seems to be
extending the Domain System in ways it was not intended to go.

I realize there is a desire to use existing protocols and applications
with minimum modifications.  However, perhaps the suggested methods
are not the way to go.  Has anyone experimented with load balancing
protocols?

-c
cire|eric

Eric B. Decker
cisco Systems
Menlo Park, California

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