DNS-Racing is a method of load balancing access to servers which are
multi homed and provides lowest latency access to users and network
resilience to ISP/routing failure.
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**What does it do?*
It permits a server which is connected to two ISPs to use the optimal
ISP when transferring data to a user regardless of TCP/UDP protocol.
When a user does a DNS look up it will select the IP address of the
server to which is closest. If one of the two ISPs is down or there is a
routing problem the user will only be offered the IP address of the
server it has access to. It also means that traffic will have the lowest
latency.
DNS Racing can be done with 2 or more providers and permits to scale
network bandwidth horizontally by adding more providers. In theory up to
14 different ISPs/IPs could be used to do the delivery.
IT is a poor man’s replacement for BGP multihoming and IP anycast.
For those that want a full explanation and an implementation guide.
http://blog.hk.com/index.php?/archives/84-DNS-Racing.-Multi-ISP-load-balancing-with-failover-using-DNS..html
Hey it is Free and you can implement it using BIND.
Regards,
Maren.
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