New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Fri Apr 15 20:37:32 UTC 2005

I'm not complaining about it - heck, I use it.

I just wanted to point out that desktop DNS servers are a reality. Right
now, few folks use them. If ISP DNS server quality gets worse or there are a
few big outages, we may see desktop DNS usage climb. This may have
deleterious effects on the roots and TLD servers.

It might be interesting to pull query data on a root server and correlate it
with known dynamic IP address pools to spot a trend.

- Dan

On 4/15/05 9:54 AM, "Patrick W Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Golding wrote:
> 
>> Too late. Every Mac ships with a working version of BIND. Its not
>> enabled by
>> default, but it can be turned on with a few keystrokes.
> 
> Name a flavor of unix which doesn't?
> 
> And even if you can, name a flavor of unix which can't get it installed
> "with a few keystrokes [or mouse clicks]."
> 
> We want people to use unix, stop complaining when they do. :-)
> 
> Besides, the OSX named is well behaved in its default configuration (in
> my limited personal experience on my own laptops).