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I hope they are not making this a default setting. What about GeoDNS load balancing/routing that a lot of companies are using? Some time ago I've tested Google
by lossolo 8y ago
I hope they are not making this a default setting.
What about GeoDNS load balancing/routing that a lot of companies are using? Some time ago I've tested Google DNS servers and got worse location from Akamai than using my ISP DNS servers. It was before Google introduced EDNS Client Subnet (rfc7871)[1] so I don't know how things are now but probably biggest CDN providers like Akamai now give exactly the same results as you would use your own ISP DNS servers. I don't know if smaller companies/CDN providers implement it tough.
How cloudflare is solving this with their 1.1.1.1 DNS server? Because if they don't then it can be really problematic for some percentage of users.
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7871 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7871
- zackbloom 8y agoIt's a balancing act between protecting the privacy of the requesting user and trying to provide enough location information that legacy services know how to route their traffic. We (Cloudflare) will likely begin providing an approximation of the ECS information which tries to strike the right balance.