[168412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google causes 40% drop in traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Neufeind)
Fri Jan 24 17:24:11 2014
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:23:53 +0100
From: Stefan Neufeind <nanog@stefan-neufeind.de>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <26320.1390596377@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 01/24/2014 09:46 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:22:58 +0100, Stefan Neufeind said:
>
>> just "no Youtube". Hmm - why would people use those resolvers, besides
>> being lazy in configuring a proper resolver-address.
>
> A lot of people make value judgements on the relative likelyhood of finding
> evil in DNS packets coming from 8.8.8.8 versus DNS packets coming from the
> IP address handed to you in the DHCP reply....
If it's just "some" DNS your provider hands out, I agree it's not much
better as well. (But you might possibly assume your provider has less
interst to spy on all your emails, your dns-queries and the like.)
What imho you'll want is a reliable resolver which is as close to you as
possible (and have it do DNSSEC-validation etc.).
Regards,
Stefan
