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nodomain | 4 years ago

It always puzzles me when people speak of "routing" in conjunction with DNS.

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unmole|4 years ago

People also speak of routing with respect to web applications and woodworking.

denton-scratch|4 years ago

In woodworking, that's a different word. In "english" English, the woodworking word is prononced "raowting", as in "now" or "about"; the business of choosing a route is pronounced "rooting", as in "boot".

In American English, "route" and "about" have the same vowel-sound, which seems unfortunate; I wonder how that happened.

English is a mess, but I hope we don't try to fix it!

teh_klev|4 years ago

Sure, most of us understand there are different uses of the word "routing" with respect to technology stacks. But they specifically say "Internet Routing" in the article title and elsewhere. "Internet Routing" does have a fairly specific meaning i.e. IP routing as define by a bunch of RFC's. What they're doing isn't really "internet routing", it's really just redirecting traffic.

mike_d|4 years ago

Why? It is a perfectly legitimate use of the term. You can use DNS responses to route visitors to the appropriate datacenter or regional network.

Head over to https://cachecheck.opendns.com/ and plug in 'www.google.com', you'll notice the Google returns different IPs in different geographic locations to route visitor traffic.

downwithbgp|4 years ago

Makes me question what else they are incompetent in.

freedomben|4 years ago

When an expert is explaining things to non-experts (like a marketing page would), you use terms that your audience will understand and relate to. The goal is not perfect technical accuracy. The goal is to convey the basic idea so the reader can understand it.

samarthr1|4 years ago

A company i work with uses their cdn product. We have been using them for a year or so now, with no issues, and a very helpful support team.

They are fairly competent and cheap. A happy bunny customer here

sbeckeriv|4 years ago

Now I am wondering what else I am incompetent in. This comment and the original give no context to why I would not use the word routing with DNS?

I looked up the definition of routing in a few places and I do not see why it does not fit. Does this also qualify as incompetent https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/zones/manage-routing-polic... ?

"It always puzzles me when people speak of "routing" in conjunction with DNS." - original message for context