[54165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: lists of DNS servers by region.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Haesu)
Thu Dec 12 14:42:39 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:42:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Tatsuya Kawasaki <tatsuya@kivex.com>, nanog ml <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1qcd67$lr1j@halt-in.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Many DNS "load balancing" solutions will return the address of the web
> server closest to the _query source_. This means these systems work best
> when your recursive DNS servers are topologically closest to your users.
Correct me if I am wrong.. But..
I don't think multiple 'A' record load balancing will return the IP
address of the web server that is closest to the _query_source_. If this
is true, then Akamai has reinvented the wheel with their near-by DNS
setup on *.g.akamai.net entries.
The NS entry 'name server' record that is closest to the _query_source_
may answer the DNS query.. I.e... such as f.root-servers.net serving many
pacific traffic as well as western US in majority.
-hc
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