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The title is misleading. It not going to make the web faster for everyone. Content hosted on CDN's that don't support the proposed DNS extension (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-...) ie Akamai, is probably going to be slower (higher latency.) In fact, worst case is that you will be mapped to a server that is not allowed to serve your ip. CDN's get a lot of free traffic by helping isp's with peering imbalances. But this free traffic is restricted to specific ip blocks.


This option isn't enabled for Akamai. There is no way it can make Akamai slower.

Title isn't misleading, but your comment is.


I thought the parent is trying to say accessing content via Akamai will be slower when using Google Public DNS/OpenDNS because they don't support the purposed DNS extension thus the request is routed to a non-local server instead of local one?

(Akamai is my main reason of not using OpenDNS to this date, otherwise I would make a switch for long)


Ahh, this is possible. Not as likely in the US, but possible. We're working on it. At least it's fixed for Youtube, all Google properties, a bunch of other CDNs now.

But yeah, some big guys still remain! We'll get 'em.


More importantly, it has no effect on the vast majority of users who are not using Google DNS or OpenDNS.

This is a workaround for a specific problem with public DNS servers, and while it's not a bad one, we shouldn't pretend it's going to help everyone.




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