[122426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Feb 14 17:21:15 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <201002142217.o1EMHCi8071152@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:20:42 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <182E6E76-F12A-41D9-800A-E5E40F3C3B7D@direwolf.com>, John =
Orthoefer=20
> writes:
>> Genuity/GTEI/Planet/BBN owned 4/8. Brett went looking for an IP that =
=3D
>> was simple to remember, I think 4.4.4.4 was in use by neteng already. =
=3D
>> But it was picked to be easy to remember, I think jhawk had put a =
hold =3D
>> on the 4.2.2.0/24 block, we got/grabbed 3 address 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, =
and =3D
>> 4.2.2.3 so people had 3 address to go to. At the time people had =3D=
>> issues with just using a single resolver. We also had issues with =
both =3D
>> users and registers since clearly they aren't geographically diverse, =
=3D
>> trying to explain routing tricks to people KNOW all IPs come in and =
are =3D
>> routed as Class A/B/C blocks is hard.
>=20
> I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still
> under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points
> of failure and as such don't have enough independence.
It's an open recursive name server, it is free, has no SLA, and is not =
critical infrastructure.
Besides, it is quicker / better to use your local ISP's RNS. If =
something goes wrong, you can fall back to OpenDNS or L3, and, of =
course, yell at the _company_you_are_paying_ when their stuff doesn't =
work. :)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
