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> (mirrored).  If both hosts are up, the traffic is routed to the closes
> server to the person making the request.  Otherwise, if one server is down,
> traffic is automatically re-routed to the other box.

That is not what BGP is made for. It's an exterior routing protocol for
routes between AS.