Re: Configure DNS to provide translation for best response times

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Configure DNS to provide translation for best r...
\ Oscar Usifer (26 Jan 2008)
. \ Barry Margolin (26 Jan 2008)
. \ Oscar Usifer (26 Jan 2008)
. . \ Stephane Bortzmeyer (28 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Configure DNS to provide translation for best response times
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Stephane Bortzmeyer
Date:	28 Jan 2008

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:50:04PM -0500,
Oscar Usifer <oscaruser> wrote
a message of 54 lines which said:

> Is Akamai's Global Traffic Management the primary solution for this
> ?

I am not aware of any serious study on market shares.

> What is the cost they would charge?

Ask them.

> I wonder if the ebay's, googles use this solution or others.

Ask them.

There are other solutions, such as DNS servers with custom backends
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS#PowerDNS_and_Wikimedia for
an example) but we move out of the topic of this mailing list...