Re: [dnsext] afasterinternet.com trial and draft-vandergaast-edns-client-subnet-00

[Martin Barry <[e-mail]>]

$quoted_author = "Ted Hardie" ;
> 
> The current draft says:
> 
>    In any case, the response from the resolver to the client MUST NOT
>    contain the edns-client-subnet option if none was present in the
>    client's original request.  If the original client request contained
>    a valid edns-client-subnet option that was used during recursion, the
>    Recursive Resolver MUST include the edns-client-subnet option from
>    the Authoritative Nameserver response in the response to the client.
> 
> Given that, how is the client to know whether the service they are using enables
> edns-client-subnet?

You could, as Nicholas suggested, test a query with edns-client-subnet set.

However I would expect that the information these providers offer to
potential users contains advice that use of the service implies opting-in to
the forwarding of the range containing the user's IP to other services to
improve geo-IP responses. I'm sure users will read it and understand it much
like they do all the other fine print. However, I'm sure anyone who cares
about privacy to this extent is probably already too risk averse to use said
services anyway.

cheers
Marty