On Aug 13, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Ken Peng <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-8-13 18:30, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> I'm not sure how accurate this really is, but:
>> 
>> http://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/which-cdns-support-edns-client-subnet/
>> 
>> Basically, it helps pass the client IP upstream so the CDN can make a better 
>> guess to which cluster to direct you to, instead of the query-source IP of 
>> the recursive they are talking to.
> 
> but how to implement that? since local DNS server always has caching.


The CDNs typically do this through chained CNAMES, with one of them having a 
low TTL. 

;; ANSWER SECTION:
swcdn.apple.com.        3242    IN      CNAME   swcdn.apple.com.akadns.net.
swcdn.apple.com.akadns.net. 38  IN      CNAME   swcdn.apple.com.c.footprint.net.

- Jared
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