Take a look at powerdns and its mysql backend. Then look at the database that's on mysql's website re:networks and their geographical location. I'm sure that powerdns (open source) could be modified to do the appropriate query and return the correct ip address. much simpler.
Curtis On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Ejay Hire wrote: > > I was thinking about the not the closest-server problem today, and realized this is > a good application for BGP-DNS http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/bgpdns/ Making it > possible to look at the reqeustor's network location and retrun the "closest" > servers. > > -Ejay > > -----Original Message----- > From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:37 AM > To: wayne > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers > > > > > ns1.mainelinesys.com > > Curtis > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote: > > > > > > > > > This seems like a good time to put in a plug for the pool.ntp.org NTP > > servers. This is collection of public ntp servers provided by > > individuals and ISP's placed in a round-robin DNS system. The goal is > > to provide the general public with a list of NTP servers that they can > > use without abusing the stratum 1 servers. > > > > > > If you can provide an NTP server to the pool, it would be greatly > > appreciated. The bandwidth and CPU usage of an NTP server is quite > > low so you can easily provide NTP services to hundreds or even > > thousands of users. > > > > If you create default NTP setups and you don't have good default NTP > > servers to use, feel free to use pool.ntp.org for one or more of your > > NTP sources. (You should have at least 3 NTP sources, although using > > more than three doesn't usually help much.) > > > > > > For more information, see: > > > > http://fortytwo.ch/time/ > > > > > > -wayne > > > > > > -- -- Curtis Maurand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maurand.com