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Re: [hybi] DNS SRV for WebSocket

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Sun, 27 March 2011 23:56 UTC

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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] DNS SRV for WebSocket
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2011/3/28 Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>:
> I agree it would be good to have websockets somehow support DNS loadbalancing.

SRV is not just for load-balancing (with different weight per entry),
but also for failover/redundancy. This is, if the chosen entry is
unreachable, the client would use the next one.

This is important.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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