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Old 03-07-2003, 03:08 PM  
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It is, however if you set the DNS TTL to only 90 seconds and use a script to check the servers, automatically removing unreachable servers from the DNS and inserting them back in as needed - it's a very basic high availability system.

But yes, the main reason I do it is for load balancing -- you're exactly right
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