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Citation
Bernard Wong, Emin Gun Sirer. "ClosestNode.com: An Open-Access, Scalable, Shared Geocast Service for Distributed Systems.". SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 40(1), 2006.

Abstract
ClosestNode.com is an accurate, scalable, and backwards-compatible service for mapping clients to a nearby server. It provides a DNS interface by which unmodied clients can look up a service name, and get the IP address of the closest server. A shared system for performing such a mapping amortizes the administration and implementation costs of proximity-based server selection. It is aimed at minimizing the amount of effort required for system developers to make new and existing infrastructure services proximity-aware.

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  Bernard Wong, Emin Gun Sirer. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/165.html"
  >ClosestNode.com: An Open-Access, Scalable, Shared
  Geocast Service for Distributed Systems.</a>,
  <i>SIGOPS Operating Systems Review</i>, 40(1), 
  2006.

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  Bernard Wong, Emin Gun Sirer. "ClosestNode.com: An
  Open-Access, Scalable, Shared Geocast Service for
  Distributed Systems.". <i>SIGOPS Operating
  Systems Review</i>, 40(1),  2006.

• BibTeX

  @article{WongSirer06_ClosestNodecomOpenAccessScalableSharedGeocastService,
      author = {Bernard Wong and Emin Gun Sirer},
      title = {ClosestNode.com: An Open-Access, Scalable, Shared
                Geocast Service for Distributed Systems.},
      journal = {SIGOPS Operating Systems Review},
      volume = {40},
      number = {1},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {ClosestNode.com is an accurate, scalable, and
                backwards-compatible service for mapping clients
                to a nearby server. It provides a DNS interface by
                which unmodied clients can look up a service
                name, and get the IP address of the closest
                server. A shared system for performing such a
                mapping amortizes the administration and
                implementation costs of proximity-based server
                selection. It is aimed at minimizing the amount of
                effort required for system developers to make new
                and existing infrastructure services
                proximity-aware.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/165.html}
  }
  

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