news from Google

Michael Holstein michael.holstein at csuohio.edu
Mon Dec 7 17:59:21 UTC 2009


>>
>> now Google DNS, anything more?
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>> http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html
>

Probably in support of their various Android netbooks that are in the pipe.

They'll likely come pre-configured to use GoogleDNS .. that way they
won't (accidentally) loose ad/search revenue when a "helpful" ISP
redirects NXDOMAIN responses.

Will be interesting to see if ISPs respond to a large scale thing like
this taking hold by blocking UDP/TCP 53 like many now do with tcp/25
(albeit for other reasons). Therein lies the problem with some of the
"net neturality" arguments .. there's a big difference between "doing it
because it causes a problem for others", and "doing it because it robs
me of revenue opportunities".

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University




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