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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:53:58 +1000
From: Andrew Pollock
To: Edwin Groothuis
Cc: aussie-isp
Message-Id: <20051013065358.GA3852@daedalus.andrew.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20051013041523.GD1265@k7.mavetju>
References: <20051013010813.GL12773@daedalus.andrew.net.au> <20051013041523.GD1265@k7.mavetju>
Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Geography-based DNS resolution
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:15:23PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:08:13AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any Open Source (i.e. free) DNS servers that are able to
> > vary the answer to a DNS lookup depending on the IP address the query
> > originates from?
>
> It's called views in Bind.
>

Yes, yes, so I've been told by about 20 people now :-)

I get the impression though, that using BIND 9's views would require one
metric spankload of configuration, which wouldn't necessarily scale terribly
well. I've also been told of PowerDNS's geo-dns backend, which sounds more
promising.

regards

Andrew
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