Re: Geographically separated load balancers?

[Josh Marshall <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> How a client in Ireland gets sent to a server in England while someone 
> on the east coast of USA gets a server in NewYork I don't know. The 
> machine name is the same in both cases. Anyone know how this is handled?
We use the supersparrow software (written by Horms) on our DNS servers 
and it works really well for sites between our Australian and Holland 
datacenters. I don't have the co-operation of our uplinks so I fake the 
BGP and with a few scripts it also handles failover to one site. My 
employer's site www.worldhosting.org is handled this way.
Regards,
Josh.