In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy

Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by sirn on Monday July 23, 2012 @07:06AM (#4280409)

This issue will be (is?) solved with the "Client IP information in DNS requests " DNS extension[1]. A year ago, David Ulevitch (OpenDNS's owner) mentions in HN post that he already got it working for all Google properties and few other CDNs (except Akamai).[2]

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-...

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941948

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by omh on Monday July 23, 2012 @07:16AM (#4280425)

Is there a technical reason why Akamai don't support this yet?

It seems that it would be in their interests to improve this. Both for a better experience for users and lower latencies from their point of view.

Or is it just that they're big, and it's a complex change?

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Re:In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy by acdha on Monday July 23, 2012 @09:55AM (#4280949)

My guess is that they're not receiving strong demand from their major customers - since they have so many massive users and a long-term code-base it makes sense that they'd be rather conservative.

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