Re: [dnsext] stupid dns tricks and transport paths

[Martin Barry <[e-mail]>]

$quoted_author = "Jim Reid" ;
> 
> I can't speak for youtube (whatever that is). However I can vouch
> from personal experience that stupid DNS tricks get it wrong, even
> when recursive DNS service and TCP traffic share the same path.
> English speakers can see this pretty much every time they connect to
> a hotel or coffee shop network in mainland Europe. The CDNs provide
> stuff in that country's national language -- good luck getting that
> right in Belgium or Switzerland -- rather than English. Similar
> problems arise in large corporate networks which have a small number
> of interconnects to the Internet: the CDNs decide the user is in
> Germany (say) because that's where the firewall or web proxy is
> located.

I'm an Australian living in Frankfurt and I feel your pain.

However, it is a failing of the "CDN" application that the language is
determined by location rather than a more accurate guide like the HTTP
Accept-Language header.

It's perfectly appropriate that I hit the google.de cluster as it's "closer"
but it's the web applications fault that it chooses to server me Deutsch
rather than the Queen's English that my browser indicates I prefer.
 
cheers
Marty