How does DNS response work with multiple hosts?

[Cricket Liu]

<mooker at probemail.com> wrote in message
news:<7nilfh$226$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>...
> When a DNS request (from a DNS server) goes to the authoritative
> server, and there are many Web Hosts (geographically located)throughout
> the country ....... how does the authoritative server determine the
> geographic location of the DNS server, so that it can give the IP
> address of the closest Web server ?

Name servers generally don't give out the address of the closest web server.
There are some products, like Cisco's Distributed Director, that try to do
that, though.

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