https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq?hl=en
there I asked jeeves for ya! On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:09 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:52:46 -0800, Damian Menscher said: > >> While I agree with your general sentiment about 3xx responses (often used >> to redirect example.com to www.example.com) I think your concerns about >> 8.8.8.8 are over-stated. 8.8.8.8 is deployed in many locations, which >> gives DNS-based geolocation a decent chance of working. > > So in how many of the 196 or so extant countries does 8.8.8.8 resolve to > a host which, when it sends a query up the chain, appears to be in the > same country as the machine that made the original query? > > How does a company know that another instance of 8.8.8.8 has been turned up or > down or re-peered, causing a shift in the mapping of DNS queries to countries/ > states? > >
