Getting a web page from filePro

Bill Vermillion fp at wjv.com
Sun Jan 30 14:50:11 PST 2005


I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Sun, Jan 30 12:45 , Fairlight
actually admitted to saying:" 

> The honourable and venerable Walter Vaughan spoke thus:
> > Bill Vermillion wrote:

> > > The chances of them moving this site are more remote than the very
> > > real possibility of UPS using round-robin DNS to lighten/spread
> > > the load among many machines. 

> > That ip address has been up since the begining (97-8?). At one time we 

> And could change any minute. The machine could fall over dead.

If the machine falls over dead they really will have a
backup/failover system.  With companies that large that is in
place.  If the machine dies an automatic rewrite of the MAC
on the standby machine takes care of that.

> They could redo their topography. You're not -getting it-,
> Walter. Frankly, I'd have expected more ready understanding
> from you.

I'll buy that part more than I would 'the machine falls over dead'
Even DNS won't cure that.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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