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scripts.mit.edu makes use of load balancing across several
different servers to handle the enormous number of requests that
are served each day. It is very important that you ***not***
hardcode the names of the servers into your scripts, because
different servers may be in the load balancer pool at any given
time.

You can find out the current list of active servers by visiting
this URL at any time:  
[http://scripts.mit.edu/servers](http://scripts.mit.edu/servers)

You may also obtain this information via finger:

    athena% finger @scripts.mit.edu

The section of the finger output that corresponds to balancing of
web requests to ports 80, 443, and 444 is the part under the
heading:  
`FWM 2 wlc persistent 600`