Think about it. Who _has_ to know your physical/geographical address and its associated Internet address block to provide you with Internet service? Your ISP! And your usage profile is valuable (and profitable) marketing data. Per chance, are you also using the ISP's DNS resolver (so they can monitor all your DNS lookups)?
As for "not wanting to receive advertising spam all day...", the Advertising Collective _will_ assimilate you and reprogram you to realize your sole reason for existence is to: 1. consume advertising, and 2. purchase advertised products and services. All time spent in other than the above two activities is wasted time, according to the Collective. (To badly parody the Borg Collective from "Star Trek".) :-) Andrew (another futile rebel against the Collective) ________________________________ From: bind-users <bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> on behalf of Peter 'PMc' Much <p...@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:10:56 PM To: Michael De Roover <i...@nixmagic.com> Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org <bind-users@lists.isc.org> Subject: Re: IPv6 Geolocation per /64 On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Michael De Roover wrote: ! Hi all, ! ! > It may be inside DNS, or it may be elsewhere, I do not know. There ! > is a DNS "LOC" record, but that doesn't seem to be used anymore. It ! > seems to be something else. But what, and where? ! I find it a shame that this record is no longer in use. GeoIP is anything but ! accurate, and GPS data is not reasonable to request from servers. Not like you ! can just hook up a GPS receiver to a VPS. Even from individual users, it ! remains contentious, for privacy reasons. LOC is certainly a niche record, but ! it could be useful for servers at least, and maybe individual Internet users ! in IPv6 (for which I'm not qualified to comment). ! ! Not to mention that this could offer more accurate location ! information Yes, certainly. But let me have You consider a certain problem with such approach: there are still a few reluctant people in the world, people who indeed seem to not enjoy receiving advertisment spam all day and all night long. Now if the location information were to simply be put into the DNS zonefiles as a RR, then these people would probably obfuscate that entry, and confgure it to read e.g. "Neuschwabenland, Antarctica" or such. And that would then certainly have a detrimental impact on our important advertisment industry. cheerio, PMc -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
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