Re: what is round robin ?

From: Oskar Pearson <oskar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:23:38 +0200

Hi

> >How is round-robin different from parent and sibling.
>
> You're talking apples and oranges. Round-Robins are just fat birds.

<grin>

> Roud robin DNS however is a method used buy your domain name server to

You do get round-robin peers too ;)

> select a server in a semi-random way. Parent and Sibling are different
> ways to connect two or more cache servers together.

You can use the 'round-robin' option in your cache_peer line.
Requests to caches that are 'round-robin' setup will be balanced
evenly, so that the load is equal on the machines.

Oskar
Received on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 09:20:52 MST

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