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- Date: 27 AUG 92 22:48:10 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: John C Klensin <KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU>
- From: John C Klensin <KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: Clusters and DNS caching
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- Given a homogeneous cluster, with Multinet running on all
- hosts (the easy case)...
-
- -- Is it plausible to put the DNS cache file,
- normally multinet:domain-name-service.cache, in the common area and
- let all of them update it and read from it? Or is the code used for
- that purpose such that one should keep them separate?
-
- -- If the caches should be separated, is there any advantage of setting
- them up as forwarders to each other? And, if so, how would you suggest
- configuring that for, e.g., a three-host cluster?
-
- For aesthetic, policy, and administrative reasons, we would rather not
- make one of the hosts appreciably more equal than the others if this can
- be avoided.
-
- --john
-