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+[[!meta title="What are the names of the various scripts.mit.edu servers?"]]
+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`
+
+
+