Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

Constantine A. Murenin mureninc at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 16:27:13 UTC 2013


On 21 March 2013 04:36, Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
>
>> Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
>> Europe with Asia?
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> Think mobile.

Why are you insisting that mobile will have wrong geolocation?

Yes, there are cases when due to the portable WiFi hotspots the
location may be wrong temporarily, but how is that much different from
a suboptimal node selection through a plain round-robin DNS?

C.




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