Configure DNS to provide translation for best response times

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:50:04PM -0500,
 Oscar Usifer <oscaruser at programmer.net> wrote 
 a message of 54 lines which said:

> Is Akamai's Global Traffic Management the primary solution for this
> ? 

I am not aware of any serious study on market shares.

> What is the cost they would charge? 

Ask them.

> I wonder if the ebay's, googles use this solution or others.

Ask them.

There are other solutions, such as DNS servers with custom backends
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS#PowerDNS_and_Wikimedia for
an example) but we move out of the topic of this mailing list...