Penguin
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A system (in sport) whereby every team plays every other team in a nicely pre-arranged fashion.

In computing, the action of looking up a value and being given a list of things to try. Useful in the case that the first site might fall over, etc.

[crb@jane?: /usr/src/linux-2.4.21$ host google.com google.com has address 216.239.53.100 google.com has address 216.239.51.100

See also rrdtool and RoundRobinArchive?.