[79791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Pasker)
Fri Apr 15 01:49:24 2005
In-Reply-To: <eb93c195ef7b93b411e17cce28b7375b@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:45:13 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jerry Pasker <info@n-connect.net>
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
I didn't say "I hope a few cluefull people don't do this." I said "I
hope _everyone_ doesn't start doing this." Big difference.
For the sake of the net, I hope no one, not even a semi popular OS
venduh, gets the idea to build a dns server in to their next OS some
day.
