[79702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Apr 14 09:55:29 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:48:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF8B3E8311.AA4258E9-ON80256FE3.004A08EB-80256FE3.004A76A3@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> So, the question remains, does the poster think that
> network operators should band together and operate
> shared anycast recursive DNS services? Or does the poster
> think that network operators should operate many
> recursive DNS servers throughout their infrastructure
> and tie them together using anycast?
I don't know what the other poster(s) were referring to, but I was not
suggesting that network operators try to run some unified DNS
infrastructure. It is an intriguing idea, however.
> If anycast is a good idea for recursive DNS service, then
> there is a 3rd party business opportunity here to operate
> global recursive DNS services so that network operators can
> focus on running the network, not on providing services
> like DNS resolution.
Perhaps even more interesting is being able to sell anycasted reverse DNS
service directly to users that are connected to incompetent providers.
;-) Seriously, though, some benefits can be imagined, like being able to
use the same DNS server on my laptop no matter where in the world I plug
in.
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