High Availability using 2 sites -- yep, "propogation."

[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Tom Brown <tom.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> propagation
>
> Most people don't realize that's the reality of the Internet. 
> Otherwise, if DNS was real-time to the real authority everytime, the 
> Internet would be a pretty slow place.  ;->

Some organizations set very low TTLs on the DNS records for their 
public hosts. Google's are only five minutes. That wouldn't allow 
real-time failover, but it's fairly quick as those things go.

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