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Google Proposes DNS Extension

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Do no evil, eh? by Rossman · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah right.

  2. Do no evil, my ass. by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 1, Troll

    Google just can't seem to go Big Brother soon enough.

  3. Hmmmmm... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just what is google's problem lately?

  4. Re:This is important! by madddddddddd · · Score: 0, Troll

    it's not about the DNS server the user is using... it's about the DNS servers used by the DNS server the user is using... and any DNS servers they might use.

    that is not specious. that is a problem.

    the user never directly entered into any agreements with the service providers in the middle.

  5. Re:This is important! by madddddddddd · · Score: 0, Troll

    here is my thoughtful argument in addition to a statement that your mother raised an idiot.

    grocery store analogy is retarded. i don't want any grocery store, i want a specific grocery store, but i don't know where it is. they have multiple locations.

    thank fully i can ask people where the nearest grocery store is.

    now at that point would i ask for the nearest grocery store, or a specific chain of grocery stores, or just any place i can get a sandwich?

    WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NETWORK DNS REQUESTS, NOT GROCERY STORES.

    YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

  6. Re:This is important! by madddddddddd · · Score: 0, Troll

    the LOAD for the RESPONSE is ALREADY HANDLED BY CDN.

    the load OF the REQUESTS is ALREADY HANDLED BY DNS.

    you are NOTHING.