Open Resolver Problems

Mon Apr 1 23:14:13 UTC 2013

Subject: Re: Open Resolver Problems Date: Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:21:42PM +0200 Quoting Niels Bakker (niels=nanog at bakker.net):
> * patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) [Mon 01 Apr 2013, 18:18 CEST]:
> >Of course, since users shouldn't be using off-net name servers
> >anyway, this isn't really a problem! :)
> 
> You're joking, right?  Should they also use only the telco-approved
> search engine, via the telco-hosted portal?

Far too many (perhaps not Patrick) in this thread are not joking. Laughter
gets stuck in my throat, as we say in Sweden. Having proper Internet
access is more and more a privilege for the Internet gentry that are
clued and able to pay for a box in a colo or similar.

The unwashed masses are left with "broadband" We can't call it "Internet"
because there are a few raving graybeards that claim they invented it
and intended it to be two-way instead of stuffing .flv down peoples
facebook-viewing devices while also supplanting cable TV with demand 
streaming.

</rant>

What percentage of the SOHO NAT boxes actually are full-service
resolvers? I was under the impression that most were mere forwarders; just
pushing queries on toward the DHCP'd full service resolvers of the ISP.

-- 
Måns Nilsson     primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE                             +46 705 989668
Everywhere I look I see NEGATIVITY and ASPHALT ...
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