On Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:35 PM Gabriel Wicke groups@gabrielwicke.de wrote:
The german squid is ready to go, pending dns updates. The ttl for the de.wp.org entry should be short to allow a fast dns switch in case of trouble with the german machine. This depends on the dns server entry getting finally switched from register.com to zwinger. Same for load balancing, peaks like the ones after tv reports only hit one of the squids currently while the load will be distributed after the dns switch.
Perhaps I missed some mails. But I was somewhat surprised about this announcement. I'm not happy with this, because this server will be a new Single Point of Failure.
I strongly recommend to discuss this point before changing the dns entries. The actual performance seems to be ok, so we don't need to hurry.
We're still having a lot of press contacts in germany. And I would not be amused to answer questions why wikipedia is down (especially in a live interview on german radio) ...
Arne [[de:Benutzer:Akl]]