Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

Thu Apr 11 20:53:49 UTC 2013

On Mar 20, 2013, at 20:28, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...] but what other alternatives could be configured in 5 or 15 minutes?

You got a lot of answers telling you to not even try, and I don't know that you can configure any of them in 5 minutes.

That being said there are lots of options that might be "good enough":

 - PowerDNS has a Geo backend - http://doc.powerdns.com/html/geo.html
 - There are various patches for Bind
 - Gdnsd - https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd
 - GeoDNS - https://github.com/abh/geodns

I use the latter for the www.pool.ntp.org service where it sends users to one of about 4000 local servers ("pops") in about 100 countries about 15 billion times a month.

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