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Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Fri Apr 15 01:34:37 2005 
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.

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TTFN,
patrick