Did u know that DNS has this feature with BIND version 4 and greater, that supports LOC records? Well Records are information that you can normally get from a machine that runs a DNS server Process. LOC Record is a specific type that provides information regarding the latitude,longitude & altitude of the server. Basically helps you to locate the DNS server on a geographical map, thereby identifying location of the machines, which use that DNS server as the Authoritative server. Pretty cool, if you are trying to map the clients that you are interacting with on a the map.
But the disadvantage of this mechanism ,is that malicious users can identify the physical location ( @least narrow it down) using this method, thereby causing security concerns... Due to this reason, most of the DNS server's do not support this specific request type or provide incorrect information. This sucks!! :(
Well... due to this, I need to find different ways to identify the location of the clients that I interact with for my project... That again sucks!!! :(
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