[79829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Fri Apr 15 16:38:13 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:37:32 -0400
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <da86f9e60464a7e45cb3917203f4d2d5@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I'm not complaining about it - heck, I use it.
I just wanted to point out that desktop DNS servers are a reality. Right
now, few folks use them. If ISP DNS server quality gets worse or there are a
few big outages, we may see desktop DNS usage climb. This may have
deleterious effects on the roots and TLD servers.
It might be interesting to pull query data on a root server and correlate it
with known dynamic IP address pools to spot a trend.
- Dan
On 4/15/05 9:54 AM, "Patrick W Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
>> Too late. Every Mac ships with a working version of BIND. Its not
>> enabled by
>> default, but it can be turned on with a few keystrokes.
>
> Name a flavor of unix which doesn't?
>
> And even if you can, name a flavor of unix which can't get it installed
> "with a few keystrokes [or mouse clicks]."
>
> We want people to use unix, stop complaining when they do. :-)
>
> Besides, the OSX named is well behaved in its default configuration (in
> my limited personal experience on my own laptops).
