[119171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Nov 9 00:40:35 2009
In-Reply-To: <A37B3017-47E8-43E1-89A3-4D3042CDC8E2@virtualized.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:40:08 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>,
David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:59 PM, David Andersen wrote:
>> Z. M. Mao, C. D. Cranor, F. Douglis, and M. Rabinovich. A Precise and
>> Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity between Web Clients and their
>> Local DNS Servers. In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference,
>> Berkeley, CA, June 2002.
>
> Given that paper is 7 years old and the Internet has changed a bit since
> 2002 (and the DNS looks to change somewhat drastically in the relatively
> near future) it might be dangerous to rely too much on their results.
> This might be an interesting area of additional research...
>
Well, the marketing folks have sure taken advantage of it. It would be nice
to see the technology folks... not just lie there and take it.
- - ferg
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