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Subject: Re: Thats How Netscape does it!
From: Mike Shaver <shaver @ neon . ingenia . com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 15:04:24 -0500 (EST)
To: marquis @ roble . com (Roger Marquis)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine . 3 . 85 . 9511161123 . A15498-0100000 @ roble1> from "Roger Marquis" at Nov 16, 95 11:44:23 am

Thus spake Roger Marquis:
> Round robin DNS, URL redirection et al. are poor substitutes for
> setting up a server that can handle the load.

Only if you think of a server as a lone machine.  I don't think you
have a problem with running a pre-forking server on a heavily loaded
machine (it's really becoming the only option, it would seem), and
this is just moving it to a more distributed model.

Mike

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