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How so? DNS was never designed to be used as a geolocation vector, as far as I have ever heard, so relying on it to be one does seem "wrong".
by michaelcampbell 16y ago
How so? DNS was never designed to be used as a geolocation vector, as far as I have ever heard, so relying on it to be one does seem "wrong".
- IgorPartola 16y agoOpenDNS defaults to resolving non-existant domains as search results, bereaking DNS. You can turn it off, if you have a static IP.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoI see. That doesn't seem to me to be a "broken concept", however, but a rather minor misfeature. I may have misread the poster to which I was responding, but his assertion seems to read to me that OpenDNS as a whole is fundamentally wrong or broken, and that Akamai is using the idea of DNS for something it was never intended to be is "correct". Both of those statements do not ring true.
- davidu 16y agoThis has nothing to do with Akamai being able to target users accurately. Google doesn't have this issue, so why does Akamai?