Revolving DNS [was Re: Serving >80000 users with RADIUS]

Luis E. Mu#oz (lem@TRUE.net)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:33:25 -0400

Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
[snip]
> I would recommend a couple of RadiusNT servers for Auth, and
> a couple for Accounting. We have implemented similar situations
> like this, and it works out really well. ON a DEC 233 with
> about 60,000 users, we were seeing auth times of less than 100ms
> with all three RadiusNT servers getting pounded. You also have
> excellent failover in case anything goes wrong with any one
> server.
>
> Dale

How about using revolving DNS for the auth & accounting servers?

Will the PM resolve the names once in a while (ie at each
transaction) or only once, the first time the names get
resolved?

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