Comment CDNs are good thing (Score 3, Insightful) 164
While I totally agree that overriding NXDOMAIN responses is evil, returning different DNS responses based on the clients location or for load balancing purposes is an extremely useful technique for last companies serving a large amount of web traffic. For example, check out what www.google.com resolves to from different countries or even at different times - depending on where you look it up from and what network links are up, you will get a different set of IPs.
Sure, determining a browser's location from the DNS client source IP is not totally reliable