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Google proposes to extend DNS protocol
- zokier 17y agoEmbrace, extend, ???
- davidu 17y agoYeah, those who don't equate Google today to Microsoft in the 90s continue to boggle my mind. Their tactics are different (the guise of openness), but make no mistake, their strategy is the same. And they are extremely smart and very effective at achieving their goals. Remember, Anything that sits between the user and an advertisement is extremely strategic to Google. So if your product or company falls between a user and an advertisement, you are in their target zone. Good luck! :-)
- kordless 17y agoThis appears to be an extension to DNS that would allow for what many network vendors call global load balancing. In the current implementation, your upstream provider (like Comcast) doesn't pass on the IP of the client doing the DNS query to the authoritative server. Not knowing the correct client IP prevents the server from figuring out which server would be, for example, closest for a given client. The proposed changes to DNS would allow an upstream provider's DNS server to pass on 3 of the 4 octets of an IP address to the authoritative server. This would allow the server to make judgments on which IPs it returned to the client based on the client's own IP address. I wonder what net neutrality concerns this raises?