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Re:Hablog – High-availability, distributed, lightweight, static site w... on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:44AM (#12109280)
Indeed, for example Chrome wants to cache DNS results for at least a minute [1].

However, Chrome and Firefox cache the complete DNS/getaddrinfo response, i.e. all addresses. Therefore a server taken out of rotation will be quickly identified when a socket connection fails.

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/net/dns/host_resolver_i...

Re:Free Lossless Image Format on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:55PM (#10335849)
Could leverage HTTP Client Hints: https://github.com/igrigorik/http-client-hints
Re:Free Lossless Image Format on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:40PM (#10321183)
Could use range requests (RFC 7233), albeit with some overhead.