On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:11:37 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
It's much harder (right?) to identify where a user is coming from and route them through the proxy that's best for them. This is what Akamai and people like this charge big bucks for doing.
Or, is there a free (or cheap) way to approximate that?
I believe BIND is supposed to have support for topology-based answers to queries, but I'm not sure how well it works (I switched over to djbdns some time ago... and djbdns definitely doesn't support such fancy features).
Normally it would be a pain to (efficiently) determine location based on IP, but since the distinction between ARIN and RIPE addresses should be easier to determine, it might be possible to set up such mappings.
I'll look into this some and report back on it.
-Bill Clark