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somewhat similar to dnsmadeeasy ANAME which has been going for years?

• jessaustin 13y ago
  Do clients have to know how to deal with ANAMEs? If so, this seems more backwards-compatible.
  • time4tea 13y ago
    no they just exist on the server, and are mapped by their service, no client change (otherwise it would be a bit pointless...)
• peterwwillis 13y ago
  ANAMEs also seem to handle geolocation. http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/aname-records/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/aname-records/ How Does This Improve CDN Services? When combined with the Global Traffic Director service from DNS Made Easy, ANAME records provide an extremely flexible and powerful solution to keep your CDN service running optimally. As soon as an ANAME record is defined with a particular GTD region (other than Default) the ANAME service ensures that it will only use DNS Made Easy’s resolving name servers that are in that particular region. For example, if you create an ANAME record with “Europe” as the GTD region, then only resolving name servers in Europe would be used to create the A records for this new record type. This ensures that your traffic continues to be routed regionally as planned with your worldwide infrastructure. Use of ANAME records are fully compatible with GTD service and optimize use of a CDN provider. This provides the complete power and flexibility that enterprise companies require from their networks today.