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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Telnet rotors/connection distribution?
Message-ID: <12653911160.21.BILLW@mathom.cisco.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:10:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan11.225650.17367@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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The folks at CMU did this by causing the domain system to repsond
to address lookup requests for a given name with the ip address of
the least loaded system.  The repsonse include a zero time-to-live,
forcing an address lookup everytime someone tried to connect.

The IETF was petitioned to allow such zero TTLs, and various terminal
server vendors were prodded to support them, both of which happened.

BillW
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