IPv6 Geolocation per /64

[Peter 'PMc' Much]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Michael De Roover wrote:
! Hi all,
! 
! > It may be inside DNS, or it may be elsewhere, I do not know. There
! > is a DNS "LOC" record, but that doesn't seem to be used anymore. It
! > seems to be something else. But what, and where?
! I find it a shame that this record is no longer in use. GeoIP is anything but 
! accurate, and GPS data is not reasonable to request from servers. Not like you 
! can just hook up a GPS receiver to a VPS. Even from individual users, it 
! remains contentious, for privacy reasons. LOC is certainly a niche record, but 
! it could be useful for servers at least, and maybe individual Internet users 
! in IPv6 (for which I'm not qualified to comment).
! 
! Not to mention that this could offer more accurate location
! information

Yes, certainly. But let me have You consider a certain problem with
such approach: there are still a few reluctant people in the world,
people who indeed seem to not enjoy receiving advertisment spam all
day and all night long.

Now if the location information were to simply be put into the DNS
zonefiles as a RR, then these people would probably obfuscate that
entry, and confgure it to read e.g. "Neuschwabenland, Antarctica" or
such. And that would then certainly have a detrimental impact on our
important advertisment industry.

cheerio,
PMc