LOC record

In the Domain Name System, a LOC record is a means for expressing geographic location information for a domain name.
It contains WGS84 Latitude, Longitude and Altitude information together with host/subnet physical size and location accuracy. This information can be queried by other computers connected to the Internet.

Record format

The LOC record is expressed in a master file in the following format:
LOC
where:


 d1: 
 d2: 
 m1, m2: 
 s1, s2: 
 alt: BY.01 
 siz, hp, vp:

An example DNS LOC resource record

statdns.net for the coordinates:

Altitude for Geosynchronous Earth Satellites

The altitude range provides the following:

DNS altitude range . This range can be easily stored in 4 bytes.
Maximum altitude is 42,849.67295 km. Which is large enough to store the altitude of a circular geosynchronous orbit.
Maximum depth of 100 km below earth surface.