<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 12, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Using the name <a href="http://rotate.aprs.net">rotate.aprs.net</a> (or <a href="http://rotate.aprs2.net">rotate.aprs2.net</a>) provides fault<br>tolerance and load distribution. These DNS names return one of a list<br>of server IPs, and most DNS implementations will return addresses such<br>that you'll get a different server IP each time you resolve that name.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Also note that on the Tier 2 level, we have a few regional DNS addresses that may get you a greater variety of servers in your area. These are addresses like <a href="http://noam.arps2.net">noam.arps2.net</a> (North America), <a href="http://euro.aprs2.net">euro.aprs2.net</a> (Europe), and <a href="http://aunz.aprs2.net">aunz.aprs2.net</a> (Oceania). Note that <a href="http://rotate.aprs2.net">rotate.aprs2.net</a> will only get you 12 out of the approximately 50 servers in the network. <a href="http://noam.aprs2.net">noam.aprs2.net</a> gets you 17 servers that are in North America. Check out <a href="http://www.aprs2.net/#regional">http://www.aprs2.net/#regional</a> for more information.<div><br><div>
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