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user1555190
user1555190

Reputation: 3239

Route 53 provide the geolocation of a user

So we have a multi tenancy application, when a user request comes in. I know in Route 53 we can route to a different server. But is it possible to determine the location ie Europe or Asia. ie like add to a header?

Ideally I'd like to pass this information forward to our application. I know that Route 53 provides the Geolocation routing policy. But can it pass this information forward?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 503

Answers (2)

Doug Harris
Doug Harris

Reputation: 3379

You could have your application listening on multiple IP addresses. With different geolocation records for each IP address, you could determine which geolocation record was used by which IP address the user connects to.

That said, there are probably better ways to determine the user's location. Since Route53 is determining location by IP address (I assume), you can do the same in your application's code.

Upvotes: 0

John Hanley
John Hanley

Reputation: 81454

I know that route 53 provides the Geolocation routing policy. But can it pass this information forward?

The answer is NO.

How would a DNS server pass that information to a client? DNS servers translate domain names to IP addresses (for the most part). There are no DNS fields where the geolocation details can be returned. When you say header, you probably mean HTTP header. HTTP is at a different layer in the OSI stack. Each type of application would have a different concept of encoding geolocation.

Upvotes: 1

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