DNS – The First Distributed Databaseblog.the-pans.com 3 pointsaptxkid4 years ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−okdjnfweonfe4yBut what advantages does this have? the replication is arbitrary and unreliable, if a TLD server messes up for a minute? ok no problem, if more?https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q38p8x/entire_clu...I wouldn't call several layers of caching "distributed", there is still ever only X owning servers for each record, and usually all X are owned by the same group
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But what advantages does this have? the replication is arbitrary and unreliable, if a TLD server messes up for a minute? ok no problem, if more?
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/q38p8x/entire_clu...
I wouldn't call several layers of caching "distributed", there is still ever only X owning servers for each record, and usually all X are owned by the same group