[119989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sun Dec 6 21:33:18 2009
In-Reply-To: <A61C2036-B276-44FB-8A3F-40EB763B7F0A@tcb.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 20:32:05 -0600
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> enter the picture. =A0Of course, some of the DNS NXDOMAIN and
> similar "synthesis" they've been performing may perturb some
> users, and hence Google's service (and _many before) are
> presumably welcomed by casual (or expert) end users.
What really concerns me is that some ISPs these days are assuming that
given that "best practices" are not mandatory, creating "bad habits" for so=
me
revenue gain it's OK.
We all will be better if they stop using the DNS for what it is not
and we focus
investment and engineering talent to create new *real* services and
improve existing ones.
My .02
Jorge
