[NTLUG:Discuss] "Back up dns server"?
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Thu Dec 6 16:16:47 CST 2007
MadHat Unspecific wrote:
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> Akamai makes shitloads doing the load balancing and availability. That
> is who Yahoo and other major plays use to offload traffic. Akamai
> answers for www.yahoo.com and redirects to one of their server farms,
> the one logically closest to you and the one with the best response time
> and what ever other details you choose. It's a great (and expensive)
> service. Yahoo syncs data/states between colos on a regular basis and
> if one disappears they are not guaranteed to be synced, but they will be
> close. There is no perfect answer.
I agree. Farming this out is not a bad way of handling it.
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