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Re: ISP best practices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu May 21 12:15:52 2009

Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:14:10 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <35BB447D-3CB9-4141-A5A7-01CB7AEB6DC3@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:00:58PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> However, you're not necessarily doing anybody any favours in making  
> statements like "faster", "more secure" and "does IPv6". DNS servers  
> are complicated beasts, and simplistic comparisons are not useful for  
> much (it'd be trivial to give you examples where PowerDNS is slower  
> and less secure, for example, and BIND9 has done IPv6 for the better  
> part of a decade).

	...done IPv6 for the better part of a decade...

	well yeah, for some very loose definition of "doing IPv6"....


> Joe


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