Google offers DNS improvement

A group of DNS providers and Internet companies, including Neustar / UltraDNS and Google, have published a proposal to extend the DNS protocol. This document will be reviewed by IETF experts, and should be put to a vote in a few months. A preliminary discussion of the document has already begun on the dnsext mailing list .

Google proposes allowing an authoritative DNS server to receive fragments of IP addresses of specific users (not entirely addresses) in order to more accurately determine their geographic location. This is necessary when selecting a site to select the server closest to the user.

Now for these purposes, only the IP address of the incoming request is requested, which is actually the address of your caching DNS server, and not your address. But the local caching DNS server is far from every company and not every computer. Many use various network services such as Google Public DNS.

Accordingly, if the caching DNS server is far away from the user, then the user may not be connected to the nearest possible server, which is why the Internet resources are spent in a non-optimal way and the site loading speed decreases.
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Google’s proposal is to allow a caching DNS server (including Google Public DNS) to include part of your IP address in a request sent to an authoritative DNS server. Enough first three octets of the address, that is 24 bits. This is enough to determine the location without compromising privacy.

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