Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?

["Travis Pugh" <tdp () discombobulated net>]

If the goal is to direct traffic from a client to the closest server farm,
why not just build a box to do a BGP lookup and respond to a name lookup
with the IP of that farm?  No pings or zone transfers necessary.

-travis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Senie" <dts () senie com>
> Dana Hudes wrote:
> > Products like the Nortel Accelar 700 do layer 7 redirect.
> > http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/datasheets/3377.html
>
> you should read that datasheet more closely. When handling multiple
> sites, this product does something questionable, just as the F5 and
> other brands do. In the case of this Nortel product, it pings the
> original user's DNS server: