What to rate limit/lock on, name or IP address?

Aaron Nabil (nabil@teleport.com)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:00:45 -0700 (PDT)

My robot-in-progress currently maintains a notion of when it last
visited a site so that it can keep it's accesses no more frequent
than say once every sixty seconds.

It maintains this information by IP address. So http://site.com
and http://site.com:1080 and http://alias_of.site.com all share
the same state.

I was testing the lock manager today and was getting (what I
thought were) erratic results until I realized that the site I
was testing against was returning multiple A records (IP addresses).

It's would be undesirable to lock against both the IP address and
the site name. So I won't.

Should I switch from IP address to site name, or leave it as it is?

-- 
Aaron Nabil
nabil@teleport.com