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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 09:27:13 -0700

On 21 March 2013 04:36, Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
Europe with Asia?

Yes, of course.

Think mobile.

Why are you insisting that mobile will have wrong geolocation?

Yes, there are cases when due to the portable WiFi hotspots the
location may be wrong temporarily, but how is that much different from
a suboptimal node selection through a plain round-robin DNS?

C.


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