Can the same domain name be made to refer to a local server on each site?

[Cricket Liu]

Jan Buelens <jan_buelens at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<7so4tv$9uv$1 at nclient15-gui.server.virgin.net>...
> I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, I can only see the last 10 days of this
> newsgroup. I want to setup local software distribution servers on each
site
> and I want the same name to refer to the the local server for all client
> PCs, including mobile users visiting a remote site.  How can I use DNS to
> achieve this?
>
> The O'Reilly book DNS on NT (NT version of the better known DNS & BIND
book)
> tells me about a type of address sorting that looks promising: if the DNS
> server is on the same subnet as the requesting client, and one of the IP
> addresses for the requested name is also on that subnet, that IP address
> will be returned first. Can anybody confirm from experience that this is
> indeed what happens? Has anyone seen this confirmed in Microsoft
> documentation?

See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/4/09.ASP, under
LocalNetPriority.

> The DNS & BIND book does not describe such a feature.

Yes it does:  pp. 240-243.

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