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What about services which use anycast/geolocation to decide where to serve you data from? They will get bad location data as they will get the location of the r
by eikenberry 9y ago
What about services which use anycast/geolocation to decide where to serve you data from? They will get bad location data as they will get the location of the resolver. This can have a direct impact on services.
An example of my own is from about 10 years ago when Netflix started streaming. We got a Roku and signed up but the service terrible due to the stream stopping to buffer every few minutes. After researching and trying several things I eventually came across the fact that the stream was coming from servers in over a thousand miles away with pretty bad latency between. Long story short, I eventually figured out it was due to my using the level3 resolvers for DNS. As soon as I changed to our ISP's DNS servers it worked great and the data was streaming from very close.
- unethical_ban 9y agoI wonder if location data would/could/should be an optional flag in DNS requests, instead of relying on physical location of the resolver.