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Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

  • From: Jerry Pasker
  • Date: Fri Apr 15 01:50:29 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.



--

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.