Re: A DNS Based Mapping Peering System for Peering CDNs

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

At 10:22 AM 30/11/2000, Abbie Barbir wrote:
>I do agree with you. However, there are methods that could be used to make 
>this
>task relatively simple.
>If there is enought interest we could discuss the methods in future 
>communications.

This is getting into more of an implementation issue, but I suppose the BGP 
tables could be used to estimate shortest path to clients; most major 
network nodes will already have a BGP router doing these calculations.



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