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From: woody@SPARTA.COM (Robert "Woody" Woodburn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: load distribution...
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Date: 13 Feb 91 14:18:49 GMT
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I'm involved with two different companies who both are distributed nationally
and have several internet connections as well as their own corporate backbones.

I have not seen a way of distributing DNS requests appropriately to the
name servers.  It would be nice for requests from west-coast machines that
are topologically near to west-coast name-servers query those servers,
rather than have extra traffic across cross-country backbones.

Have I missed something, or is this a known problem that is being dealt
with?

woody@sparta.com
woody@cseic.saic.com