[47056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selective DNS replies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Apr 24 19:31:57 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:30:23 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog@silverwraith.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:00:49PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Yes, this would be for directing users to a 'local' server hosting
> > www.example.org (or something similar).
> > Yes, this is not the best way of doing it I know :-)
>
> It's the best way to do global server load balancing, as I see it.
If you have a network, you can just use the same IP for your dns
servers in multiple locations, and let your IGP route it to the closest
one.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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