'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Ian Batten]

On 12 Jan 09, at 1112, Andrew Bangs wrote:

> --- On Mon, 12/1/09, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK, DNS is not context-aware, so no matter where you
>> type
>> 'mail.google.com' you will always get a bunch of
>> addresses from the
>> same address pool.
>
> I doubt I will be the first person to respond to say that DNS can be  
> context-aware in exactly this way. As well as DNS servers being able  
> to give responses based on where you are (typically based on what  
> your IP address is) you aren't even guaranteed to have your DNS  
> query answered by the same nameserver if you make queries from  
> different locations.

And that's without considering anycast, which is common for this sort  
of work.

ian