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Geo Traffic Management
What is Geo Traffic Management?
Geo Traffic Management allows DynECT Managed DNS clients to set a
DNS response based on the geography of the requesting party. Geo Traffic
Management improves on the existing Traffic Management service by performing a recursive IP address lookup.
This approach is more granular than targeting solely on requests routed to
the closest data center in one of Dyn’s seven pre-determined regions in the
Anycast network. Dyn can now get more specific and indicate where traffic
from different states in the US, provinces in Canada, or individual countries
is sent.
Following these rules, traffic does not necessarily need to be sent to which
data center is closest and different rule sets can be made for a number of
different scenarios like language, high traffic situations, and testing, to name
a few.
How Does Geo Traffic Management Work?
When setting up Geo Traffic Management, you provide Dyn with the IP address
or host name for all of your servers. For each server, you can declare which
state, province, or country maps to it depending on your needs. The location
of the recursive DNS server for the user visiting your site determines which
one of your servers is handed out for the user to connect to.
What are the Benefits of Geo Traffic Management?
Network Tuning
In the event that a geographic area doesn’t neatly fit into (or disobeys) Anycast,
Geo Traffic Management can be used to fix these abnormalities. Using the
example of traffic coming from Egypt, does that traffic go to a European or
Asian data center instead? With Geo Traffic Management, you can specify the
best location for this traffic to go.
Overlay Active Failover or Traffic Management
For added granularity, you can overlay Geo Traffic Management on a hostname
with other advanced DynECT Managed DNS features, such as Active Failover
or Traffic Management. This allows the user to adjust a specific region causing
trouble while leaving the rest of the world as it always has been.
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Cloud Balancing and Content Distribution
If you produce content that is consumed by people from multiple different
nations that speak a range of languages, it may be beneficial to make a rule
based on what language the requester speaks. For example, you can set
Geo Traffic Management up so that when you receive a request from one of
the 22 Spanish-speaking countries in the world, they will all go to one predetermined server or CDN.
How Can I Use Geo Traffic Management?
If you are currently a DynECT Managed DNS customer, contact
your account representative to add Geo Traffic Management.
If you’re not currently a customer, stop waiting around and
contact our sales team for more insight today:
[email protected] +1.888.840.3258
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