[119159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Sun Nov 8 19:30:51 2009
In-Reply-To: <4AF75D1B.7080307@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:30:10 -0800
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com> wrote:
> He also assumes that DNS is some great expense and that by not allowing
> tons of caching we're taking money out of peoples' wallets. This is just
> not true with the exception of very few companies whose job it is to answer
> DNS requests.
>
And of course in many cases these are the same people who are benefiting
significantly by the geo-aware (and sometimes, network-aware) CDN's that
this type of DNS service provides.
Scott.
