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Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:21:19 -0700
On Mar 21, 2013, at 12:23 AM, "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com> wrote:
Why is there no way to do any of this?Because it is impractical to assume an IP address can be mapped uniquely to a geolocation.Why is it impractical? If I have a server in Germany and in Quebec, why would it be impractical to have the logic in place such that European visitors would be contacting the server in Germany, and visitors from US/Canada -- the one in Quebec?
There is not "no way to do any of this." People do it all the time. They do it using anycast, which requires a certain amount of network build, or they do it using source-address databases, which have a certain amount of ridiculous FAIL. Are you actually asking why there's no way to do it perfectly at no cost? -Bill
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- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?, (continued)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? bmanning (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Masataka Ohta (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Constantine A. Murenin (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? joel jaeggli (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Barry Shein (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Graham Beneke (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Constantine A. Murenin (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Dave Sparro (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Josh Hoppes (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Arturo Servin (Mar 21)
- Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight? Bill Woodcock (Mar 21)