Google and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup 151
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Many users have written in with news of Google and OpenDNS working together on The Global Internet Speedup Initiative. They've reworked their DNS servers so that they forward the first three octets of your IP address to the target web service. The service then uses your geolocation data to make sure that the resource you’ve requested is delivered by a local cache. From the article: "In the case of Google and other big CDNs, there can be dozens of these local caches all around the world, and using a local cache can improve latency and throughput by a huge margin. If you have a 10 or 20Mbps connection, and yet a download is crawling along at just a few hundred kilobytes, this is generally because you are downloading from an international source (downloading software or drivers from a Taiwanese site is a good example). Using a local cache reduces the strain on international connections, but it also makes better use of national networks which are both lower-latency and higher-capacity."
Re:Network-topology-aware round-robin DNS (Score:4, Funny)
You aren't understanding what is going on here. All Google and OpenDNS are doing is providing the authoritative DNS server with the IP address of the client. Google/OpenDNS know nothing about any possible caching or local servers. They are just making it possible for the final DNS server to possibly, assuming that whoever owns the domain you are resolving supports some kind of CDN, send you to a nearby server.
What likely really happened here is this:
Akami: Hey Google! You're compulsion to violate everyone's privacy is fucking up the Internet by breaking all of the CDN/Geo-based services.
Google: But... but... we must know everything about everyone otherwise we'll not be able to sell them to our customers.
Akami: Whatever dude, you're causing 50% congestion on the backbone links because your shit hides the actual address of the client.
Google: Well, we've got sack-fulls of PhDs. We'll find a solution that allows us to keep spying and selling and still allows the CDNs to work.
Akami: Look you jackasses, the system that exists today works. Your crap is just causing problems and labor for everyone else.
Google: Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na I can't hear you.
Akami: Seriously. You're being a dick.
Google: No. We've just invented this awesome thing that is going to Speed-Up! The InterNets!
Akami: Jesus Christ! The system that was there before you broke it works. Why the fuck do you have to keep breaking shit?
Google: Because we can and people are stupid. And we are rich. So STFU.
Akami: Fuck. There's no reasoning with these clowns.