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They use EDNS for regional compliance, not for bandwidth optimization.
by ventegus 9mo ago
They use EDNS for regional compliance, not for bandwidth optimization.
- josephcsible 9mo agoWhat specific part of regional compliance actually needs this, and why does no other website seem to need it?
- ventegus 9mo agoe.g. currently most media snapshots contain wartime propaganda forbidden at least somewhere. RT content verboten in Germany, DW content verboten in Russia, not to mention another dozen of hot spots. "Other websites" are completely inaccessible in certain regions. The Archive has stuff from all of them, so there’s basically no place on Earth where it could work without tricks like the EDNS one.
- arcfour 9mo agoThat makes zero sense. You're aware that they get the client's actual IP upon connection? You're saying they have groups of servers with every possible permutation of censorship that they direct clients to through DNS? Absurd.
- ventegus 9mo agoThey always direct clients to a server abroad. The task is exactly opposite to what CDNs do
- josephcsible 9mo ago> The Archive has stuff from all of them, so there’s basically no place on Earth where it could work without tricks like the EDNS one. Isn't that true of archive.org as well? Why doesn't it need EDNS then?
- ventegus 9mo agoActually, I'm not entirely sure on how archive.org achieves its resiliency. It's a rather interesting question for archive.org, if one were to interview them, that is. Unlike archive.today, they don't appear to have any issues with e.g. child pornography content, despite certainly hosting a hundred times more material. They have some strong magic which makes the cheap tricks needless.