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<LI><em>From</em>: Chris Gray &lt;<A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>&gt;</LI>
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[Oliver Jowett:]

 &gt;On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Chris Gray wrote:
 &gt;&gt; The problem with that is that then the clients have to connect to one
 &gt;&gt; of those 10 ports. You might manage that if you have a special client
 &gt;&gt; that has a decent algorithm to balance the use, but if you rely on
 &gt;&gt; humans to do it, it won't work - most will use the first one all the
 &gt;&gt; time. There isn't any way to know which port is the least busy.

 &gt;What about using round-robin DNS (multiple A records for the same
 &gt;hostname)? It's using the same port, just on different IPs that all happen
 &gt;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.

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