[161619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Constantine A. Murenin)
Thu Mar 21 03:23:12 2013
In-Reply-To: <514A8CAE.70305@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:23:02 -0700
From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 20 March 2013 21:29, Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> 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".
Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace
Europe with Asia?
>> 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.
Why is it impractical? If I have a server in Germany and in Quebec,
why would it be impractical to have the logic in place such that
European visitors would be contacting the server in Germany, and
visitors from US/Canada -- the one in Quebec?
C.
