LOC record

Record format

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

<owner> <TTL> <class> LOC d1 [m1 [s1]] {"N"|"S"} d2 [m2 [s2]] {"E"|"W"} alt["m"] [siz["m"] [hp["m"] [vp["m"]]]] (The parentheses are used for multi-line data as specified in [RFC 1035] section 5.1.) where: d1: [0 .. 90] (degrees latitude) d2: [0 .. 180] (degrees longitude) m1, m2: [0 .. 59] (minutes latitude/longitude) s1, s2: [0 .. 59.999] (seconds latitude/longitude) alt: [-100000.00 .. 42849672.95] BY .01 (altitude in meters) siz, hp, vp: [0 .. 90000000.00] (size/precision in meters)

An example DNS LOC resource record

statdns.net for the coordinates: 52°22′23″N 4°53′32″E

LOC record statdns.net. IN LOC 52 22 23.000 N 4 53 32.000 E -2.00m 0.00m 10000m 10m

Altitude for Geosynchronous Earth Satellites

The altitude range provides the following:

DNS altitude range [-100000.00 .. 42849672.95]. 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 (i.e. approximately 35,790 km above mean sea level).

Maximum depth of 100 km below earth surface (approximated by the WGS84 reference ellipsoid).

Postcode to LOC in DNS using find.me.uk

You can look up the LOC record for any UK postcode, e.g.:

$ dig loc SW1A2AA.find.me.uk SW1A2AA.find.me.uk. 2592000 IN LOC 51 30 12.748 N 0 7 39.612 W 0.00