New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Fri Apr 15 05:31:00 UTC 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