At 06:19 14.12.99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> > >
> > >Application layer.
> > Not in my 5-line client, it's not.
> > Source/destination address choice inside whois? inside finger? NO.
>
>That was a flip remark for entertainment purposes, and it begs the question
>of what you mean, precisely, by "application layer" in a non ISO world.
to me, it's where different purposes do different things.
>That being said, it would be straightforward to bury something like this in
>libraries, so your 5 line application just loads with the multihoming
>library code, which would be, in practical terms, an integrated
>resolver/socket library that cached performance metrics for IP addresses
>associated with a particular domain name, and automatically switched to
>different IP addresses when performance became bad. You would want to
>have it periodically ping the other addresses, as well.
Socket library/DLL, I can live with.
>I'm not proposing from a position of advocacy, you understand, but from a
>pure implementation point of view, it seems straightforward, and you could
>easily write 5 line clients that used it.
Understood.
Harald
--
Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
