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Mary's avatar
Mary
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Sep 28, 2020

Geolocation when LDNS in a different geography than user doing the lookup

I am wondering if anyone has clever thoughts on how to address the situation with Topology load-balancing on F5 DNS. If a user is in EMEA but their ISP DNS server is in the US, it will be that DNS se...
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rob_carr
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Sep 29, 2020

This is exactly why EDNS Client Subnet was created. Of course that depends on the ISP DNS server including the client subnet information and on your BIG-IP DNS running a version that supports the option.

 

Beyond that, not much to offer. This is a real and recognised weakness of global load balancing.

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    Mary
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Thank you for making me aware of this.