Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?

joel jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Thu Mar 21 16:39:11 UTC 2013


On 3/21/13 9:27 AM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> 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?
Because the GGSN is nowhere near the customer's location.
> 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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