[135433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jan 25 09:54:43 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:52:45 -0500
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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On 2011-01-25, at 01:25, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> =
wrote:
>=20
>> 2. The generally creaky, fragile, brittle, non-scalable state of =
the overall DNS infrastructure in general.
>=20
> this is getting better, no? I mean for the in-addr and larger folks,
> anycast + lots of other things are making DNS much more reliable than
> it was 10 years ago... or am I living in a fantasy world?
I think "generally creaky" is right on. The DNS is a seething, living =
tangle of misconfigurations and protocol violations, which I think is to =
be expected given that it's so very distributed.
("I think we should deploy a database that is co-admined by many =
millions of people who don't know each other, all using different =
varieties of software. We'll make everything end-users do on the =
Internet depend on it. It'll be great.")
But I think "fragile", "brittle" and "non-scaleable" are demonstrably =
wrong. If the DNS was as unreliable as those words suggested, nobody =
would use it. The reality is that everybody uses it.
Joe
