Interesting. Potentially useful. Though seems hard to use and does not help encode useful things like “building”, “floor”, “rack” etc.
Which DNS servers and hosting providers do you know of that support LOC/RFC-1876? BIND clearly, djbdns/TinyDNS… anything else?
Doesn’t appear to be available in 2012 R2 Active Directory DNS services. Search results suggest someone at Microsoft laughed about the concept or that no one there has ever heard of the RFC.
It’s not available in the UI of any of the hosting providers I use. e.g. DNS Made Easy, Google.
But then again they rarely support anything fun unless used as secondaries from a hidden master.
There’s a few minor hosting shops that mention it. CloudFlare is the only major name that I can quickly find even mentioning it, and it’s a blog post, the gist of which is really just that it’s still an obscure and rarely utilised record.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-dns-loc-records...
-Colin
On 24 April 2016 at 03:11, Rob VanHooren rob_vanhooren@mac.com wrote:
and they work well!
even when you don’t sloppily flag the example host as being in the middle of Hudson’s Bay!
adam.example.org. IN LOC 55 09 51.243 N 01 41 38.836 W 53m 10m 10m 10m
:-D
bonus: for folks in the UK, there’s even direct lookup by postcode
$ dig loc NE612LL.find.me.uk http://ne612ll.find.me.uk ;; ANSWER SECTION: NE612LL.find.me.uk http://ne612ll.find.me.uk. 2592000 IN LOC 55 9 51.264 N 1 41 38.106 W 0.00m 0.00m 0.00m 0.00m
although, to satisfy those nasty OCD twinges, still have to fish out the proper altitude and tighten up D/M/S accuracy.
DNS LOC records are still a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOC_record https://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal
R.
e.g.
adam.example.org. IN LOC 55 35 58.449 N 79 38 15.811 W 53m 10m 10m 10m
On Apr 23, 2016, at 11:26, observium-request@observium.org wrote:
It ends up on the canary islands, which is where we put devices we can't find a location for.
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