I'm going to add geolocation lookup on my own DNS eventually.
But my product will connect directly to each region and measure latency and the number of players so anycast would not help a great deal for the complexity.
I wish the DNS roundrobin used the order of the replies in the DNS packet as priority instead of randomly picking one IP... that way my DNS servers could direct people to the correct region without loosing the backup!
As to why the root servers are not doing geolocation lookups in 2021 I'm just baffled by the lazyness of monopoly owners, but then again the priority ordering would be needed first!
I'm going to add geolocation lookup on my own DNS eventually.
But my product will connect directly to each region and measure latency and the number of players so anycast would not help a great deal for the complexity.
I wish the DNS roundrobin used the order of the replies in the DNS packet as priority instead of randomly picking one IP... that way my DNS servers could direct people to the correct region without loosing the backup!
As to why the root servers are not doing geolocation lookups in 2021 I'm just baffled by the lazyness of monopoly owners, but then again the priority ordering would be needed first!