On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Adrian Bool wrote:
On Wed 26 Feb, Matt Ranney wrote:
As it is, if the interface-defaulted squid machine was dual-homed to providers X and Y that don't peer, a customer of X could get the A record for the interface in Y's space. The client would then have to take the transit path between X and Y, which for many X's and Y's, sucks.
You could take in all the BGP data from your providers (read-only as it were) then link that into your DNS server so that it returns an IP address according to the 'best' (however you define that...) route that you have back to them...?
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I think the whole purpose t Paul V's madness in creating this solution was to avoid doing just that. Also I seem to remember something in Paul's take that took care of this situation. Maybe he can elaborate. Geoff White Virtual Sites netmaster@v-site.net