On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:52 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:48 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:42 PM Kain, Becki (.) <bka...@ford.com> wrote: > > > At home, using 8.8.8.8, if I goto www.nike.com, I get rerouted to > > > nike.com/ca. I cleared the dns cache (I’m running Catalina macos) and > > > rebooted just because. Anyone else seen a weirdism on this? thanks > > > > Welcome to Why You Shouldn't Make Customer-Visible Decisions Based On > > DNS Resolver Geolocation or DNS Load Balancing Sucks 101. > > > > Nike.com is geolocating the server IP address which requests the web > > site address. This isn't yours or 8.8.8.8 but instead some unicast IP > > address to which your 8.8.8.8 packet was routed. Possibly in Canada. > > Nike appears to think so. > > Though I'm probably talking out my tail since this is an HTTP redirect
quite possible' :) (you don't normally, but I think the HTTP thing is the 'gotcha') > which would know your originating IP address (unless you're knowingly > or unknowingly using a proxy). the flow here is PROBABLY: "some dns query which doesn't really matter" by client "some http(s) connect to the server by the client (beki)" "server looks up 'client address' in a 'database of geo ip mapping' and says; "you are in CA(nada) so... 302 /ca pls!" good times! :) (also, typical geo ip problems :( bummer!) > > -Bill > > > > -- > Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
