Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

Thu Mar 21 07:16:23 UTC 2013

On 20 March 2013 20:57, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 3/20/13 8:28 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
>>
>> Why even stop there:  all modern browsers usually know the exact
>> location of the user, often with street-level accuracy.  It should be
>> possible to say that you have a server in Fremont, CA and Toronto, ON
>> or Beauharnois, QC, and automatically have all East Coast users go to
>> Toronto, and West Coast to Fremont.  Why is there no way to do any of
>> this?
>>
>
> I guess there could be with LOC records.
>
> ~Seth

Apart from not being supported by anyone, it's also broken by design
in regards to the "Searching by Network or Subnet" section (e.g. the
party who controls 0.0.0.88.in-addr.arpa is not at all related to the
party that has 88.198.0.0/16), and also has no IPv6 support:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876#section-5.2.2

C.