resolving differently depending on location?
base60
nobody at whitehouse.com
Mon Oct 17 23:15:42 UTC 2005
Sid Shapiro wrote:
> Hello,
> In a global intranet, some of my people would like to have connections
> made to "close" servers. That is you ask for a connection to, say,
> local.company.com and you get connected to a server which is closer to you
> depending on where you are.
>
> When I was asked this, my first reaction was that this was a misuse of
> DNS, but then I remembered that other places - ebay, or google have
> geographically placed servers and connections are made to the "closest"
> server to you.
>
> Is this done in DNS or is it handled by the web (or whatever)
> applications?
Sortlists can be used to do this explicitly, but you sound like you
want to do it automatically and on a large scale.
Some domains include a record which gives their geographical location,
but it's optional.
I'd say that's your best bet.
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