Geographical load balance

[Scott]

Thank you, this looks like it will do what I needed. I needed a low/no 
cost solution for a non-profit type site.

Scott

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:00:22AM +0200,
>  Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote 
>  a message of 25 lines which said:

>> 	BIND is not designed to do this sort of thing.  

> Right.

>> If you want this, you're going to need to buy one of those expensive
>> devices sold by vendors like Cisco, for tens of thousands of
>> dollars.

> Free software can do the same. PowerDNS with the suitable backend
> (geobackend, included with the official distribution, it has a very
> detailed README) and the suitable database of IP<->location mappings
> (for instance http://countries.nerd.dk/more.html).

> http://www.powerdns.com/

> Several "grassroot" projects use it, like Wikipedia uses it
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS#PowerDNS_and_Wikimedia) or the
> Blitzed IRC network.