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- From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
- Subject: Re: SA Records
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.173316.27419@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet)
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- References: <10956@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:33:16 GMT
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- In article <10956@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu>, bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
- |> I am looking for some mods that were written to add SA (Shuffle A) Records
- |> to BIND. We have an IBM host frontended by a Terminal Server which provides
- |> 32 ports spread out over 4 IP Addresses. The nameserver always returns the
- |> addresses in the same order and PCTCP only tries the first address. If it
- |> is busy, it gives up. For obvious reasons, this isn't working. Can anyone
- |> point me in the direction of the mods??
-
- There are two separate problems here, neither of which relates to
- SA records:
-
- 1. the terminal server should provide all 32 ports on the same
- Internet address, so that you don't have one "busy" and the
- others not.
-
- 2. PCTCP should try ALL addresses and not just the first one. There
- are plenty of PC-based TCP/IP packages. Perhaps you should consider
- trying another one?
-
- SA records will work around this problem, but bear in mind that it is
- a workaround and not a solution.
-
- William LeFebvre
- Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Northwestern University
- <phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
-