redirecting overseas requests to local servers

[Michael Voight]

Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Michael Voight wrote:
> 
> > You can't. You would need to have 4 separate domain names. Like
> > ww-europe.domain.com. Unless of course, the client are on the same
> > network as the servers or they are using sortlist. But to get a client
> > anywhere on the internet to pick a server by location is not possible.
> 
> UltraDNS provides a service where you can reach the *topologically*
> closest server according to BGP. http://www.ultradns.com.
> 

Yes.. But this means the clients need to be near a server running bgp
that participates in the server's bgp.

I was under the impression he was talking about Joe Internet reaching
his sites.

Michael