Re: anyone generating location-specific tinydns values?

On 01/03/2010 01:48 AM, James Sutherland wrote:
>
> Is it that bad? OpenDNS certainly tries to route your queries to your
> nearest OpenDNS node, so I (in the UK) would be served by OpenDNS
> resolvers in London. 
We should be alright. We are dealing with "road warriors" and I think
almost none of our users use any other DNS server other than the one
assigned via DHCP. That assumes ISPs don't use OpenDNS/Google of course
- that's something I haven't looked into.

>  I recall one service which "intelligently" routed my
> traffic to their server in Sweden rather than the US, not knowing that
> the shorter straight-line distance wasn't reflected in available
> network bandwidth.
>
>   
Indeed. The annoying thing is that I don't even want to use geodns. I'd
rather VPN software had more options. It would be much more efficient to
have the client simply resolve a DNS name back to (say) 12 IP addresses,
and then ping them and choose the closest one. No need for DNS tricks,
no issues with OpenDNS,etc. However, no commercial VPN software I know
of has such functionality, nor do they even support triggering scripts
during initialization - where I could have  my own code to do the trick.

Things like this are possible with open source (eg openvpn) of course -
but no good for the commercial software we use :-(

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1