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THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF DNS LOC RECORDS

blog.cloudflare.com5 min read

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A rarely used DNS record type called LOC specifies a physical location. While most DNS records handle basic website information, LOC records are used to store geographical coordinates. A bug in Cloudflare's DNS server (RRDNS) prevented it from serving LOC records correctly. This post goes through it can be fixed.