[161638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why are there no GeoDNS solutions anywhere in sight?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Thu Mar 21 12:40:08 2013
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:39:11 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>,
Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 3/21/13 9:27 AM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> 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?
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.
>
