Because dns round robin has nothing to do with reliability or failover. If you use round robin to distribute load over 3 IP's, and one IP/node is down, every third request is still sent to that IP. So every third request will fail/timout as long as that IP/node is down.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Re:Redundant Load Balancers?
Posted by: the-pfj on June 11, 2005 07:08 AM#