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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