Re: [PLUG] ISP Recommendations / LOC records in DNS

[Ronald Mansolino <rmsolino@netaxs.com>]

> LOC is probably not used since it could just be made up. Off-list, I
> discussed with someone that in reality, large providers who specialize in
> true geographic load balancing (not just for failover, but for
> performance) - probably depend on business relationships with the top 50
> ISP's in the US to gather info on regional IP address characteristics. If
> you think about it, the top 50 ISP's probably cover 95% of the market -
> especially if you take into account that some of these providers "supply"
> the access to smaller ISP's and so on.
> 
> -john

considering how well DNS is maintained at most large-scale providers...


There are services that maintain IP->Geographic data that 
you can subscribe to; but the original poster should probably
find an ISP that runs their own rwhois server (eg. Netaxs or DCA)
and specify that you want the street-address specified in the 
allocation record. 

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