New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Fri Apr 15 05:45:13 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.
>
>--
>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.