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zzzcpan on Oct 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for enc...

Some authoritative DNS servers may respond with incorrect IP addresses for specific IP subnets of an ISP (i.e. pointing to unreachable or slow far away servers), so it could be useful to fix this either statically or by forwarding domains to another DNS resolver which gets proper responses. Things like that.

knorker on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

My experience is that things like that will obviously break more than it fixes. One cannot assume to know better between two third parties like that.

Half of global loadbalancing is getting around ISPs doing stupid shit they shouldn't have been messing with.

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