1 [[!meta title="What are the names of the various scripts.mit.edu servers?"]]
2 scripts.mit.edu makes use of load balancing across several
3 different servers to handle the enormous number of requests that
4 are served each day. It is very important that you ***not***
5 hardcode the names of the servers into your scripts, because
6 different servers may be in the load balancer pool at any given
9 You can find out the current list of active servers by visiting
11 [http://scripts.mit.edu/servers](http://scripts.mit.edu/servers)
13 You may also obtain this information via finger:
15 athena% finger @scripts.mit.edu
17 The section of the finger output that corresponds to balancing of
18 web requests to ports 80, 443, and 444 is the part under the
20 `FWM 2 wlc persistent 600`