12 Mar
2000
12 Mar
'00
6:27 p.m.
If the goal is to direct traffic from a client to the closest server farm, why not just build a box to do a BGP lookup and respond to a name lookup with the IP of that farm? No pings or zone transfers necessary. -travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
Dana Hudes wrote:
Products like the Nortel Accelar 700 do layer 7 redirect. http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/datasheets/3377.html
you should read that datasheet more closely. When handling multiple sites, this product does something questionable, just as the F5 and other brands do. In the case of this Nortel product, it pings the original user's DNS server: