[24698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic routing hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Mon Aug 2 22:11:34 1999
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:08:47 -0600
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>
Cc: Martin Cooper <mjc@cooper.org.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Craig A. Huegen" wrote:
>
> Note that the particular case in question could also be
> an implementation of Cisco's DistributedDirector product,
> which responds to DNS requests with the closest server to the
> querying machine.
Doubtful, since he states that requests going to a specific IP address are
reaching geographically diverse web servers.
Alec
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