Geographical load balance

[Kevin Darcy]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:09:35PM -0500, Scott wrote:
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>>I am trying to find out if Bind can be used to send a user to a closer 
>>server based on location. For instance a UK user would go to our server in 
>>the UK and a US user would hit the US server. Is this possible with Bind 
>>and if not is anyone aware of options for this without a large investment.
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>Short answer: no.  See load balancing mailing list for long discussions
>of this.
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Joe,
The user did not specify whether this was for an Internet name or an 
intranet name. For an intranet with all resolvers under close 
control/synchronization/co-ordination, it is possible to do what the 
user is looking for via "sortlist" (with certain other caveats, e.g. the 
app must be able to tolerate occasional "wrong" connections, 
Microsoft-based clients may get the sorted results "re-sorted" by their 
OS'es networking stack, etc.). For the Internet, I agree, there are 
serious, in most cases fatal pitfalls to the sortlist approach...

- Kevin