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... as geographical location of internet hosts, is to delegate
responsibility to local domain administrators ...
... database of geographical information about
internet hosts presented a number of options. The uumap project
[UU85] was the first serious attempt to collect geographical location ...
... MIB (Management
Information Base) variable was also an option, however this would
require the host to be running an appropriate agent with public read
access. It was also felt that MIB ...
... MIB data should reflect local
management data (e.g., "this" host is on level 5 room 74) rather than
a hosts geographical position. This view is supported in the
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... management data (e.g., "this" host is on level 5 room 74) rather than
a hosts geographical position. This view is supported in the
examples given in literature in this area [ROSE91].
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... Mock87a][Mock87b] represents an existing system ideally
suited to the provision of host specific information. The DNS is a
widely used and well-understood mechanism for providing a distributed
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... DNS. Current DNS servers provide a variety
of useful information about hosts in their domain but lack the
ability to report a host ...
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The valid GPOS record for a host at Curtin University in Perth
Western Australia would therefore be:
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... GPOS field is omitted, a DNS enquiry will return no position
information for that host.
Consider the following example:
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... IN GPOS -32.6882 116.8652 10.0
The hosts marsh, lillee, and ambrose are all at the same geographical
location, Perth Western Australia (-32.68820 116.86520). The host
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... The hosts marsh, lillee, and ambrose are all at the same geographical
location, Perth Western Australia (-32.68820 116.86520). The host
hinault is at a different geographical location, 10 degrees north of
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... Perth in the mountains (-22.6882 116.8652 250.0). For security
reasons we do not wish to give the location of the host merckx.
Although the GPOS clause is not a standard entry within BIND
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