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Location-dependent content referencing
You can reference a content file differently on the site of the user in several ways:
You may configure your network so that the content servers get the same host
names and have the Internet domain of their location (this must be unique for
every server). For example, the content server at A can have the name
content.A.mycompany.com, the content server at B can have the name
content.B.mycompany.com. By this naming convention, the name resolution
directs every user to the nearest (distributed) content server using the same
URL, for example, http://content/courseware/index.html. If the users’
operating systems at site A are configured this way, then users can resolve ...