Geographically separated load balancers?

[Josh Marshall]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
> How a client in Ireland gets sent to a server in England while someone 
> on the east coast of USA gets a server in NewYork I don't know. The 
> machine name is the same in both cases. Anyone know how this is handled?
>

We use the supersparrow software (written by Horms) on our DNS servers 
and it works really well for sites between our Australian and Holland 
datacenters. I don't have the co-operation of our uplinks so I fake the 
BGP and with a few scripts it also handles failover to one site. My 
employer's site www.worldhosting.org is handled this way.

Regards,
Josh.