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From: jdalton@b...
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:28:23 +1100
Subject: Re: [oc] Re: mirror - Domain names
> > > 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?
>
> The DNS server needs to respond with different addresses depending on
> the requester's IP address. Apart from software support, that requires
> building a network mapping table that makes sense, which would be quite
> some work I guess.
Given the apparent complexity of implementing my suggestion of
variable domain resolution, I don't think it is worth following it though.
Maybe in the future when tools to do it improve?
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