Re: [oc] mirror - Domain names

[seanl@chaosring.org (Sean R. Lynch)]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:15:37PM -0800, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> > Getting more sophisticated, would it be possible to have the name
> > 'www.opencores.org' automatically resolve to the nearest server for 
> > each user?  In this case, the main server should still have a fixed 
> > name (home.opencores.org?) so auto redirection can be bypassed in case
> 
> > of problems.
> 
> Don't how this is done. But I suspect it isn't so simple. Does anyone
> know?
> 
> Yeah I do but I havnt done it. You must do what VisualRoute
> does(www.visualroute.com) it will go through every host that the user is
> routed through to locate the host often within a few miles. All you have
> to do is write a java program like that or a server side app like that.
> Once that?s done just redirect the user to the closes server.

The simplest solution would be to simply have www.opencores.org use
round-robin DNS but on each host have that virtual host only give a page
that has you pick a host by geographic location, and only have the
"real" site come up for specific server names... then you're also
guaranteed consistency of a given mirror.

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