February 2018
Beginner
290 pages
7h 28m
English
This is normally done by DNS resolution. For example, if I request mail.google.com from India, the global load balancer will resolve the IP address of a server which is closer to the region (geolocation), and if the India region goes down, then the DNS will resolve to an alternate site, say the USA.
There are two major ways this is configured:
In anycast mode, the DNS requests using BGP for the same IP address to be routed to different DNS servers, which can have different IP addresses. In the second mode, based on the location of the IP address from which the DNS request is being made, the responses can be different.
Now pair this with the DNS server's ability to monitor the availability ...
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