[AFS3-std] DNS SRV Resource Records for AFS

[Russ Allbery]

Harald Barth <haba@kth.se> writes:

>> Per call is probably better in some sense, but I don't think it's
>> sufficiently better to require implementations do it.

> In what sense?

It's better load balancing than having each client latch on to a
particular server and use only that server for a period of time.  If you
do the latter, you can end up getting unlucky and having all of your
clients hammer a single server.

Of course, the VLDB is a light enough service that this is probably not
really an issue.

> Debugging is easier if it doen NOT randomize for every call.

Debugging is what manual fs setserverprefs is for, among other things.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>