I've been a professional software developer for the last 10+ years now, but unfortunately I only know the absolute basics about networking. I'm not a networking guy at all. I've picked up books here and there, but I can't even tell you what a network mask does.
But apparently some ideas that I had regarding domains and geographic proximity to the client can be set up with anycast.
I'm wondering if it would be possible, for example, to setup something like "insight.dash.org" where there are several Insight nodes running around the world, and all requests to that domain would return the closest server to the person, or a CNAME alias to the closest, something like that. But someone could still type, say "sg.insight.dash.org" to connect directly to the server hosted in Singapore.
Is something like that possible? Would it require hosting your own DNS? All the domains and server locations are just a theoretical example. I'm wondering if this is possible to setup and if so, what the effort required would be.
But apparently some ideas that I had regarding domains and geographic proximity to the client can be set up with anycast.
I'm wondering if it would be possible, for example, to setup something like "insight.dash.org" where there are several Insight nodes running around the world, and all requests to that domain would return the closest server to the person, or a CNAME alias to the closest, something like that. But someone could still type, say "sg.insight.dash.org" to connect directly to the server hosted in Singapore.
Is something like that possible? Would it require hosting your own DNS? All the domains and server locations are just a theoretical example. I'm wondering if this is possible to setup and if so, what the effort required would be.