Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

[Jerry Pasker <info () n-connect net>]

> 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.