Re: Reality Check and Ideas

Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:55:45 -0500 (EST)

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> because we are not looking for thousands of mirrors... 20 at the tops, plus
> international... Maybe its because DNS doesn't allow you to specify which
> server is closer, you are stuck with walking down the list of NS's after the
> main one. No again, clients can code around this... Who knows...

Actually good DNS servers like bind remember which NS's seem to work better.
So they do cache netographic performance information

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