Google Proposes DNS Extension

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 28, 2010 @06:02AM from the you-know-my-name dept.

ElusiveJoe writes "Google, along with a group of DNS and content providers, hopes to alter the DNS protocol. Currently, a DNS request can be sent to a recursive DNS server, which would send out requests to other DNS servers from its own IP address, thus acting somewhat similar to a proxy server. The proposed modification would allow authoritative nameservers to expose your IP address (instead of an address of your ISP's DNS server, for example) in order to 'load balance traffic and send users to a nearby server.' Or it would allow any interested party to look at your DNS requests. Or it would send a user from Iran or Libya to a 'domain name doesn't exist' server."

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Re:Do no evil, eh? by Gabrill · 2010-01-28 06:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Mod parent up. There is no good reason for this other than to facilitate the monitoring of users.

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Re:Do no evil, eh? by suso · 2010-01-28 06:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

My thoughts exactly. Google already does anycast, so why exactly do they need this? Obviously to generate logs of what DNS queries are being made by exactly who.