"geographic" dns-answer

[Patrick Greenwell]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Birgit Schmid wrote:

> I want to use several servers with the same name; the customer should use the
> server he reaches with minimal hop-count (to minimize traffic).

Actually you probably want to use several servers with the same IP
address, and let BGP determine the topologically closest server(with
whatever weighting you might wish to apply.) BGP doesn't care much about
names...