20 Mar
2013
20 Mar
'13
11:43 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:28:23PM -0700, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Any plans to make DNS itself GeoDNS-friendly?
No. And I say this as someone working for a vendor that provides that service. Any sort of "Geo" DNS is what protocol people would call a "stupid DNS trick". It works in particular, narrowly-scoped ways because of the loose coherence of the DNS. But as a matter of protocol, you can't really standardize it, because it's actually taking advantage of certain flexibilities in the DNS and its interaction with the routing system. Turning that operational fact into a protocol feature would be a bad idea. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asullivan@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448