"geographic" dns-answer

[Birgit Schmid]

Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:44:11PM +0200, Jim Reid wrote:
> > Not really. The LOC RR tells you where something is physically
> > located. That doesn't translate very well into "near" or "far" in
>
> The original question is:
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:04:38PM +0200, Birgit Schmid wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > is there any possibility to give an answer for the nearest server?
> >
> > eg i have 2 servers in los angeles and new york and the dns-query gives the
> > ip
> > of the nearest server...
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > birgit
>
> So, the ``nearest'' server in terms of IP connectivity could be either the
> ``nearest'' in hop count, or the one with the smaller RTT.  In geographical
> terms (which is what I answered) this could be determined via LOC RRs.
>
> So the original questor(sp?) Birgit Schmid, should clarify the question.

First of all I'd like to thank anyone who answered :)

I want to use several servers with the same name; the customer should use the
server he reaches with minimal hop-count (to minimize traffic).

Hope it's clearer now :)

Thanks

birgit