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Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?


From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:16:23 -0700

On 20 March 2013 20:57, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
On 3/20/13 8:28 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

Why even stop there:  all modern browsers usually know the exact
location of the user, often with street-level accuracy.  It should be
possible to say that you have a server in Fremont, CA and Toronto, ON
or Beauharnois, QC, and automatically have all East Coast users go to
Toronto, and West Coast to Fremont.  Why is there no way to do any of
this?


I guess there could be with LOC records.

~Seth

Apart from not being supported by anyone, it's also broken by design
in regards to the "Searching by Network or Subnet" section (e.g. the
party who controls 0.0.0.88.in-addr.arpa is not at all related to the
party that has 88.198.0.0/16), and also has no IPv6 support:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876#section-5.2.2

C.


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