[79788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Fri Apr 15 01:31:58 2005
In-Reply-To: <a06200704be84fd217a04@[65.199.121.152]>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:31:00 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:13 AM, Jerry Pasker wrote:
> Jeff Cole wrote:
>>
>> Run bind locally on your laptop. There's a Win32 version available if
>> you're not running some sort of Unix or Linux on there. It's what I
>> do as my ISP's DNS is wonky at times, as is $ork's as they choose to
>> use Active Directory for DNS.
>
> For the sake of the root servers, I hope everyone doesn't start doing
> this.
Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots.
A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more
pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops.
I guess one could argue that the chance of misconfiguration go up as
the number of systems goes up.
--
TTFN,
patrick
