[111523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L3: Google from DC via the Netherlands?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Feb 6 16:04:28 2009
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:04:18 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902061432580.72677@nog.angryox.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Peter Beckman wrote:
> SO. Who's problem is this to fix? Is it:
>
> 1. Me? Am I a dope for using a very reliable but anycasted resolving
> name service? Clearly, I could just use the handy dandy easy to
> remember because I worked there 198.6.1.x, or is that an Internet
> faux pas because technically I wasn't given permission to use it?
>
We are network operators. We all use robust distributed name servers,
along with our own (usually hidden) primary.
But as a network operator, why aren't you running your own caching resolver?
Not since the '80s have I ever needed to point at somebody else's resolver,
the DNS is much better distributed now.
