loc rr - what does it do?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dsmbgi$m1i$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "none" <dtiberio5 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> I am having trouble finding info on loc rr other than RFC's.
> 
> I set up my domains with the lon/lat info.
> 
> Does this mean that a user will go to the nearest server based on
> lon/lat when he looks up my domain name? If I have 10 datacenters with

No.

> 10 different IP's for 1 domain name, and each one has the loc rr info,
> does thi smean that users from california will be directed to the
> datacenters in california?

No.

As far as I know, nothing uses the location info automatically.  It's 
just there for human information.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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