Re: Backup server?

Adam D. Woodbury (woodbad@blee.net)
Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:53:30 -0400 (EDT)

>
> If you do this, it would be a lit simpler to round-robin the address
> "keymaster.verser.frii.com" via DNS.
>
> That way there's no work required at the user's end.
>

Unless things are written correctly (perhaps incorrectly) this will not
work. If the client does a name lookup when starting up, and then keeps
using that same IP address it might work, but if the client does a resolv
request each time it needs to access the server, then you could request a
keyblock from one server, answer to another... an interesting twist on
things :) Itwould probably be FAR easier to simply tell people to try
out another server.

Adam

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