[TriLUG] OT: CDNs using DNS IPs to geolocate?

Brian lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com
Tue Jan 7 13:02:44 EST 2014


Hi Smart People,

I recently came across the following sentence:

"[L]arge content delivery networks (CDNs) like Akamai and LimeLight 
still use the IP address of the DNS server to judge your location."

How does a CDN host know what DNS server I used to resolve their name?

~B


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