"geographic" dns-answer

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Yiorgos" == Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo at dblab.ece.ntua.gr> writes:

    >> is there any possibility to give an answer for the nearest
    >> server?
    >> 
    >> eg i have 2 servers in los angeles and new york and the
    >> dns-query gives the ip of the nearest server...

    Yiorgos> If the DNS servers support the LOC RR and the respective
    Yiorgos> admins use it

Not really. The LOC RR tells you where something is physically
located. That doesn't translate very well into "near" or "far" in
networking terms. The original question was about the IP address of
the nearest server, which is a different thing. And even if LOC
records are present, it's down to each application to (a) go look for
them; (b) make sense of the answers; (c) figure out where the local
host is; and (d) work out which IP address is "nearest".