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- > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:38:35 +0000 (GMT)
- > From: Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@directory.rl.ac.uk>
-
- > The simple way to provide multiple servers would be to
- > register the server name in the DNS with multiple A
- > (address) records pointing to different machines. Then
- > the clients could be mod'ed could try the second or third
- > ... addresses if they couldn't get through to the first.
-
- Ok, This seems a bery good idea, if that is the functionality which DNS
- supports.
- <practical>
- Let's try it.... Anyone care to mod HTTP.c? It's not obvious from
- the gethostbyname that one is allowed to refer to different
- machines:
- struct hostent {
- char *h_name; /* official name of host */
- char **h_aliases; /* alias list */
- int h_addrtype; /* host address type */
- int h_length; /* length of address */
- char **h_addr_list; /* list of addresses from name server */
- };
-
- That look like a list of aliases for one machine, rather than a
- list of machines for one alias! But maybe the reverse will work.
- So all machines support char **h_addr_list rather than the older
- h_addr? We can probably differentiate using #ifdef h_addr
- which is set to a macro if there IS a list. I assume you need then
- separate entries for the virtual duplicate node and the actual
- real nodes, so that you can speak to them sepately. Is this normal
- and OK?
- </practical>
-
- > How you keep info upto date accross multiple servers is
- > a different matter, need some form of replication a la
- > DNS zone transfers (or Quipu's extensions to X.500 ) ...
- > Mind you, replication within www is a harder issue: a
- > server might be sitting in front of datasets too large
- > to sensibly duplicate.
- >
-
- > Kevin Hoadley, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- >
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