[165397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Akamai Edgekey issues ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Hulbert)
Tue Sep 3 11:54:28 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=p1GqMXo24NVJspG2aQQuak0=qzcZX4zTk0KtMCHv_TVw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Scott Hulbert <scott@scotthulbert.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 23:41:07 -0700
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
> Why not just use the TWC nameservers,
> if thiings work when you use them instead
> of the Google nameservers?
>
One reason would be that TWC used to hijack failed DNS requests and show
advertisements (
http://netcodger.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/roadrunner-returns-to-dns-hijack-=
tactics/
).
Also, Google DNS and OpenDNS helped manually clean up bad records after the
NYTimes had their nameservers changed at the TLD registry (
http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks).
=97Scott
