Re: BIND9 zone question

On 14/08/14 09:44, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> So that works perfectly for Netflix because any part of that service that
> cares about Geolocation is in the Netflix domain.
>
> Hulu on the other hand, has services that are outside of the Hulu domain
> that take issue with my location - a248.e.akamai.net.
>
>
> you might be wondering why i dont just use a VPN?
>
> Well I dont want to tunnel all streaming traffic accross it and Netflix
> doesnt require all connections to be from the U.S. Only when you browse the
> Netflix catalog and when you chose a show/movie to watch does the service
> check location, after that the web browser, Apple TV, other media device is
> redirected to a CDN to stream the content. and that CDN doesnt care where I
> am from. So I get better throughput by not tunnelling the video stream.
>
>
> Now a hosts file would fix this problem very nicely.....but Apple TV doesnt
> have a hosts that is accessible and thats where I do most my streaming from.
>
> Interestingly, I can watch Hulu on my PC with my current setup with zero
> problems. Its when I try on the Apple TV that it talks to a248.e.akamai.net
> and throws an error that I'm outside the U.S.
>

I believe dnsmasq lets you change host addresses of single hosts in
a large domain with a 1 line entry, not a bind solution, but it's really
easy to do with dnsmasq, i have no idea how to do it with bind.

dnsmasq has this functionality for things like blocking ads, but you
can use it for any purpose

# Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here.
# The example below send any host in double-click.net to a local
# web-server.
#address=/double-click.net/127.0.0.1

# --address (and --server) work with IPv6 addresses too.
#address=/www.thekelleys.org.uk/fe80::20d:60ff:fe36:f83

# Add the IPs of all queries to yahoo.com, google.com, and their
# subdomains to the vpn and search ipsets:
#ipset=/yahoo.com/google.com/vpn,search


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