Re: GeoIP information

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com>]

I don't believe anyone is either.  We looked at it as well and after
reviewing logs from our authoritative DNS server responsible for our
in-addr.arpa zones, we saw zero queries for LOC records.

Ray

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:43:13AM -0400, Clay Curtis wrote:
> I don't believe anyone is actually using the LOC RR, but maybe I'm wrong.
> This seems like the best way to store this type of data.  I could see CDNs
> being able to leverage this along with edns-client-subnet to decrease page
> load times significantly.  How is this still an issue?  I mean, we have the
> means to fix this.  Whoever a reverse zone is delegated to could easily
> update the LOC record to provide this info.  They can make the LOC record
> as "fuzzy" as they feel comfortable by zeroing out the minutes and seconds,
> as the LOC record is just a set of GPS coordinates.  Who better to report
> the physical location of a network than that network's operators.  I think
> country code would be a nice addition to the LOC record though.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Clay Curtis
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> wrote:
>
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> >
> > There appears to be a way of associating a subnet in the IN-ADDR.ARPA
> > domain to a FQDN, which could then be queries for LOC data.  For single
> > addresses, the domain owner could opt to include location data for their
> > domain.  For subnets, the operator can include location data at their
> > option.
> >
> > Also, I would add one more field to the LOC RR:  country code.  This would
> > be a two-byte value that is the standard two character ASCII country code.
> > When missing, a value of binary zero would be returned on query.