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Re: Selective DNS replies


From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:30:23 -0400


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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