Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Re:Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa by acdha on Monday June 15, 2015 @09:48AM (#9719220)

> Another tricky problem is if people use 8.8.8.8 – a CDN provider such as Akamai will see your request as coming from Europe, and will serve the request out of a European datacenter as opposed to the node in Nairobi.

This is a tricky problem but there's a solution for it: edns-client-subnet, which allows the DNS provider to pass along your subnet for services which don't return the same response for everyone:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-client-sub...

Google's Public DNS team announced that support had been enabled for Akamai last December:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/12/google-pu...

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Re:Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa by rsohan on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:25AM (#9719447)

Thanks, we'll update the post to reflect this.

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Re:Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa by acdha on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:27AM (#9719464)

Thanks – it's definitely worth mentioning as a general concern since it's an important feature to look for in a DNS service no matter where you live.

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