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9729: Re: [MUD-Dev] How to support 1000+ simultaneous connections, and some philosophy.
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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:03:09 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Oliver Jowett:]
>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Chris Gray wrote:
>> The problem with that is that then the clients have to connect to one
>> of those 10 ports. You might manage that if you have a special client
>> that has a decent algorithm to balance the use, but if you rely on
>> humans to do it, it won't work - most will use the first one all the
>> time. There isn't any way to know which port is the least busy.
>What about using round-robin DNS (multiple A records for the same
>hostname)? It's using the same port, just on different IPs that all happen
>to be on the same machine.
I'll let others answer that - my knowledge of networking is mostly as
a programmer, and not as an administrator/configurator. I'm not sure
how easy it would be to do (not in editing files, but in practical
matters), or whether it would yield decent balance among the 10.
--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/
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