[JDEV] Client Redundancy

[arh14 at cornell.edu]

Keep just a keep-alive connection to backup servers?  I would think that 
would be wasteful.  The server list can certainly be rotated according to 
responsivity (more responsive moves higher and is chosen first), but the 
minute time it takes to connect to another server, I think, would 
indicate that it is not really worthwhile to keep redundant connections.  
The server might also want to do other things.

Streaming should be client to client, I would think, so there wouldn't be 
any benefit there in redundant server connections for quality of service.

Aaron

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Paul L. McNeely wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone ever thought about creating redundant connections
> to multiple server for quickest connection/recovery from server death?
> Meaning a client makes a backup connection to a server, whicever has the
> best ping response it uses primarily doing this back and forth for quicker
> respones, If one of them dies it uses the the one that its still connect
> with and attempts create another secondary.
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