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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02-May-22 09:02, Stephane Bortzmeyer
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:39:33PM +0200,
Bjørn Mork <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bjorn@mork.no"><bjorn@mork.no></a> wrote
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Which problems do LOC solve?
I remember adding LOC records for fun?() in the previous millennium when
RFC 1876 was fresh out of the press. But even back then paranoia
finally took over, and I deleted all of them.
Don't think I ever found anything to actually use them for.
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Fun is a sufficient reason.
French zip codes to LOC:
% dig +short +nodnssec LOC 34000.cp.bortzmeyer.fr
43 36 47.108 N 3 52 9.113 E 0.00m 1m 10000m 10m
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-code-postal-lonlat.html">https://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-code-postal-lonlat.html</a> (in French)
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<p>I would never discourage anyone from having (harmless) fun.</p>
<p>On the other hand, unless your codes postaux are spherical (or a
circular projection), your LOC will be at best an approximation of
a point in the postal zone. Perhaps the post office, or the
geographic center, or a public building, or a monument, or the
best restaurant, or...? LOC can't represent the boundaries of
most (any?) postal zones, as they tend to be polygons (or with
curves, simply a closed path). So the most fun may be guessing
the meaning of the result :-)</p>
<p>Still, overall DNS seems to generate more problems than fun, so
if LOC provides amusement, it's a good thing.</p>
<p>Malheureusement, LOC's practical application remains unclear.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Timothe Litt
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