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To: eDollar.com who wrote (3451)6/3/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: leon y.  Respond to of 15145
 
>>The back door server is of no use. They use a round robing load
>>balancing server. I went to Current offerings and could sail thru
>>without a single problem.

Theoretically, a round-robing load-balancing DNS server should get you the least busy server. But in reality, it doesn't do a perfect job. I had difficulties refreshing earlier, the server e*trade automatically pointed its DNS to got very slow. Then I switched to one of the alternate IP addresses and got a much better response time.

Regards,
Leon



To: eDollar.com who wrote (3451)6/3/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: CatDog  Respond to of 15145
 
I agree.... I had no probs...ISDN 128K link....Through UUNET...