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by kevin_nisbet 2907 days ago
Well, from the sounds of it they're not running at scale (always 3 nodes), and it sounds similar in principal to the way HSRP/VRRP works which is a well defined and understood protocol for doing leader election on a local network.

I suppose the question might be why not use VRRP itself, but if this works for them and has conflict resolution I don't think it's all that troubling.