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Comment by duncaen

Most websites don't have redundant servers but its still there and used by a lot of big sites.

The whole point of it is to connect to multiple A and AAAA records with a very short delay (250ms in chrome). The browsers use poll to get notified about the first established connection and then use it. So if one A/AAAA records IP is unreachable or slow it will use a another one. There will be no fallout (except maybe for clients that don't use something like happy eyeballs, but any browser does that) if you have multiple A/AAAA records and one of them is down.

parent duncaen 7 years ago

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