[ale] Does anybody have experience with a load-balancing/failover distro?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed September 29 2010, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Oh, yes.  A caching proxy is absolutely required in an environment
> where you have more than 5 or 10 people using it concurrently on a
> regular basis.  Even when you have 70+ Mbps Internet service, it makes
> a difference, having both a caching DNS server and a caching Web
> proxy.  A _huge_ difference.  Also, while it was _totally_ not
> practical when I was in high school (in part because my school wasted
> so much money on fscking infrastructure software such as Novell's
> network setup on a Windows 98/NT 4/Win2k network).

would that improve performance at all using your ISP's DNS server, rather than 
say openDNS??

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