redirecting overseas requests to local servers

[Michael Voight]

Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Michael Voight wrote:
> 
> > > UltraDNS provides a service where you can reach the *topologically*
> > > closest server according to BGP. http://www.ultradns.com.
> > >
> >
> > Yes.. But this means the clients need to be near a server running bgp
> > that participates in the server's bgp.
> 
> Nope.

If the client is in a domain served by a bgp router, how would this
work?

Michael