[47061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selective DNS replies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Apr 24 23:35:43 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 03:33:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>,
Avleen Vig <lists-nanog@silverwraith.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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I believe this is in the context of:
'hax0r _bob (for instance) has a PTR for his ip which says
"I.love.humble.net" when machines a->y query for the PTR, BUT when machine
z queries it returns "www.cert.org"'
I could be off base here, but I think this is the question Avleen is
asking, eh?
--Chris
(chris@uu.net)
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
> PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
>
