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I'm looking for a way to set up my DNS so that global traffic hits different servers. At the moment, we have servers in one data-center and users from remote areas are complaining about slow speeds. So we'd like to set up servers closer to those users and have subdomain.domain.com hit those servers (very similar to a CDN, but with dynamic content)

Anyone know of a DNS host that does this? Or exactly what it's called so I can find info on it?

To clarify:

subdomain.domain.com should automatically go to one of these:

Server A (Texas)     - hosts north/south america
Server B (Amsterdam) - hosts europe/africa
Server C (Singapore) - hosts asia/australia
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It's called Global Server Load Balancing. Akamai, Sandpiper, Amazon web services, etc can do that. If you want to do it yourself, you'll need something like a F5 Big-IP (for big bucks $$$). Keep in mind that DNS is the wrong place to do this properly which is why it's often called poor man's load-balancing.

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