resolving differently depending on location?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon Oct 17 23:37:43 UTC 2005


Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <dj17cv$2hks$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>BIND *does* however, have support for "sortlist". One can have the name 
>>resolve to all of the location-specific IPs, and then sort them 
>>according to the source IP of the DNS client. This only works 
>>*reliably*, however, when the sortlist configuration of all resolvers is 
>>tightly controlled.
>>    
>>
>
>Right, so it's useless for a public web site.
>
The OP specified a "global intranet". That's what I deal with here, and 
we use sortlist quite effectively. The hardest part is keeping all of 
the servers' sortlist definitions current, but we're working on 
automating it...

                                                                         
                                                            - Kevin




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