Geographical load balance

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:58:46PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:09:35PM -0500, 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.
> >
> >Short answer: no.  See load balancing mailing list for long discussions
> >of this.
> >
> 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, if he has a LAN with drops in both US and UK, I would be
interested in seeing its configuration.  ;-)


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Joe Yao
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