[161614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Mar 21 00:30:29 2013
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:29:34 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb63hqpT4CLcQ-TiMfYZtrqqT=1TRouKkQGn-QwdHCJO3g@mail.gmail.com>
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Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> Why even stop there: all modern browsers usually know the exact
> location of the user, often with street-level accuracy.
If you think mobile, they don't, especially because "often" is
not at all "enough times".
> Why is there no way to do any of this?
Because it is impractical to assume an IP address can be mapped
uniquely to a geolocation.
Masataka Ohta
