"geographic" dns-answer

[Patrick Greenwell]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Birgit Schmid wrote:

> 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.

Consider for a moment that you would have to have some metric to measure
the number of hops between the requestor and the server they wished to
reach. How would propose to do that with a "pure dns-solution?"