Geographical load balance

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:09 PM -0500 2005-10-25, Scott wrote:

>  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.

	BIND is not designed to do this sort of thing.  If you want this, 
you're going to need to buy one of those expensive devices sold by 
vendors like Cisco, for tens of thousands of dollars.

	On the subject of GSLB in general, see
<http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm>.

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