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Google DNS and OpenDNS also cause some serious problems with geographic results. My go to example is www.netflix.com. I live in NY and Google DNS always points
by dfc 13y ago
Google DNS and OpenDNS also cause some serious problems with geographic results. My go to example is www.netflix.com. I live in NY and Google DNS always points me to us-west instead of us-east.
dfc@fob-xray:~$ host www.netflix.com # local unbound dns
www.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-east-1.netflix.com.
www.us-east-1.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com has address 50.16.245.238
www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com has IPv6 address 2406:da00:ff00::6b14:f251
dfc@fob-xray:~$ host www.netflix.com 8.8.8.8 # 8.8.4.4 Gives same response
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:
www.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-west-2.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.netflix.com is an alias for www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com.
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com has address 54.245.96.95
www.us-west-2.prodaa.netflix.com has IPv6 address 2620:108:700f::3270:5f36
- eli 13y agoStrange, 8.8.8.8 appears to be anycast and resolves to a east coast server for me, so I correctly get us-east-1 for netflix when I query it FWIW, Google has proposed a solution to this problem: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-subnet-01 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-sub...