twice-refried news

Google wants to see client addresses in DNS queries

Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an “Internet-Draft” outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, geographically distributed content delivery networks can tailor their answers to a specific client’s network location. So a client from California would talk to a server in California, while a client in the Netherlands would talk to a server in the Netherlands.

Full Article (Ars Technica - arstechnica.com)




blog comments powered by Disqus
To Tumblr, Love Metalab