DNS LOC
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DNS LOC: Geo-enabling the Domain Name System provides LOC records for geographical location of known sites. Maps are available for the coterminous USA, Europe, and the world.
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Internet research projects may use geographical and other data to understand Internet usage patterns and infrastructure issues. To design WWW caching hierarchies, server mirroring arrangements, or the location of new ISP peering points it is often necessary to consider the geographic spread of the Internet usage base (as a simple example, the Internet sees a daily usage peak that begins when the US East Coast starts their workday).
The DNS LOC (location) resource record is designed to make this data available. Using the distributed nature of the Domain Name System, it allows individual organizations to manage their own latitude and longitude information (including the use of deliberately imprecise data when needed for security reasons), while making the data available to all who need it without requiring a single point of failure hosting a large database of location information.
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