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Re: Selective DNS replies

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Wed Apr 24 19:33:28 2002 
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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