resolving differently depending on location?

[Dan Foster]

In article <dj0nh1$13c$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Sid Shapiro <sid_shapiro at bio-rad.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> In a global intranet, some of my people would like to have connections 
> made to "close" servers. That is you ask for a connection to, say, 
> local.company.com and you get connected to a server which is closer to you 
> depending on where you are. 

It can be done with IP Anycasting -- a modern routing feature.

Some large DNS providers uses it. We use it for other things, and seems
to work out ok.

-Dan