[119162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wall)
Sun Nov 8 19:44:52 2009
In-Reply-To: <4AF75D1B.7080307@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:42:48 -0600
From: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
To: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>, NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com> wrote:
> In most cases it already is. =A0He completely fails to address the concep=
t of
> Anycast DNS and assumes people are using statically mapped resolvers.
>
> He also assumes that DNS is some great expense and that by not allowing t=
ons
> of caching we're taking money out of peoples' wallets. =A0This is just no=
t
> true with the exception of very few companies whose job it is to answer D=
NS
> requests.
I don't know why Paul is so concerned, just think how many F root mirrors
it helps him sell to unsuspecting saps. The Henry Ford analogy was amazingl=
y
apt, imagine 'ol Henry coming back and claiming that automatic transmission=
s
were a misuse of the automobile.
Drive Slow ('cause someone left the door open at the old folks home)
