"geographic" dns-answer

[Birgit Schmid]

Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> 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...

Hi Patrick,

is a pure dns-solution possible? I don't want to do with bgp.

Thanks

birgit