loc rr - what does it do?

[Dave Clark]

Some traceroute utilities will lookup LOC records.  That is the only program
I know of.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Margolin" <barmar at alum.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: loc rr - what does it do?


> In article <dsmbgi$m1i$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "none" <dtiberio5 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble finding info on loc rr other than RFC's.
> >
> > I set up my domains with the lon/lat info.
> >
> > Does this mean that a user will go to the nearest server based on
> > lon/lat when he looks up my domain name? If I have 10 datacenters with
>
> No.
>
> > 10 different IP's for 1 domain name, and each one has the loc rr info,
> > does thi smean that users from california will be directed to the
> > datacenters in california?
>
> No.
>
> As far as I know, nothing uses the location info automatically.  It's
> just there for human information.
>
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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