The alternative could result in timed out connections for much longer for a
portion of your customers.
-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of Nick
Murtagh
Sent: 26 October 2006 17:09
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] redundant db driven web serving
Gary Pigott wrote:
> The main issues they raise are expensive hardware, ISP capabilities
> and getting your own IPs & ASs. We use Linux firewalls to do our BGP,
> so
Well, for me the main issue would be that a BGP routing change might not be
visible to all clients for several minutes, resulting in error messages in
some clients' browsers.
There's no good solution for this. The article mentions handing out multiple
A records, if the application is stateless this would be the best solution.
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