[e2e] two questions about the Internet

[Oleg Vishnepolsky]

Erich M. Nahum writes:

>96 (Atlanta) was the first olympics that IBM hosted, and I believe it was
>just one complex in Southbury, CT.  98 (Nagano) and 2000 (Australia)
>were hosted by 4 main sites: Bethesda (for Europe), Shaumberg IL and 
>someplace in Ohio (for the Americas) and Tokyo (for Asia).  The
>request routing was done on a very course-grain level, basically
>through the routing tables.  E.g., if you were in Europe,
>olympics.com pointed to Bethesda. I think it was done at
>the routing layer and not through DNS. 

How is it even possible not to involve DNS ? If DNS was giving out the same IP address to  olympics.com
irrespective of the where requests came from, then routing would have been real tricky, to say the least. 

Oleg Vishnepolsky