On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 16:18 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote: > Before we start talking about using DNS for this purpose, have you > considered > to use IP anycast for this? You can simply create multiple servers > with same IP > address on different places over the world. After that you announce > this IP > address from multiple places simultaneounsly via BGP and BGP > automatically > routes all clients to the closest node. Advantage is that this is > already > implemented, used and nothing have to be modified. > > Regards, Adam > We cannot assume our customers can influence or have access to change BGP routing, so I excluded multicast solutions from the get go. Also it requires more changes on the clients which is another heavy minus.
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