nike.com->nike.com/ca

Wed Jan 6 22:32:42 UTC 2021

Yet I could goto the site, via Ford's network (ssssh, shopping at home) and I'm in the same city as Ford.

Go fig

-----Original Message-----
From: William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2021 4:48 PM
To: Kain, Becki (.) <bkain1 at ford.com>
Subject: Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:42 PM Kain, Becki (.) <bkain1 at ford.com> wrote:
> At home, using 8.8.8.8, if I goto 
> https://clicktime.symantec.com/3R152eRtwvwtDYyinkDfVJ87Vc?u=www.nike.c
> om, I get rerouted to nike.com/ca. I cleared the dns cache (I’m 
> running Catalina macos) and rebooted just because.  Anyone else seen a 
> weirdism on this?  thanks

Welcome to Why You Shouldn't Make Customer-Visible Decisions Based On DNS Resolver Geolocation or DNS Load Balancing Sucks 101.

Nike.com is geolocating the server IP address which requests the web site address. This isn't yours or 8.8.8.8 but instead some unicast IP address to which your 8.8.8.8 packet was routed. Possibly in Canada.
Nike appears to think so.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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