[161637] 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 12:27:43 2013
In-Reply-To: <514AF0C4.7000200@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:27:13 -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 21 March 2013 04:36, Masataka Ohta <mohta@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.
