On Jul 29, 2010 8:39pm, Michuki Mwangi <
michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
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> Steve Muchai wrote:
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> >> I have observed that alot of folks tend to mention using OpenDNS and
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> >> GoogleDNS.
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> >> Am curious to find out why the change?. IMHO recursive name servers are
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> >> the easiest to build, operate and maintain.
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> > True. Still, one tends to get their SPs DNS failing all too often.
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> > Have personally had issues in the past and keep wondering why.......
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> Very strange - what are they running - i bet not bind!
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> >> Secondly KENIC went to alot of effort to have DNS Root-Server instances
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> >> and .org, .COM/.NET instances locally.
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> > But there's no open recursive servers, right?
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> No. There was talk to have OpenDNS anycasted - not sure if this has been
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> handle NXDOMAIN.
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> >> Am definitely interested to hear why folks are changing.
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> > Poor service, poorly maintained DNS servers, poor response time,
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> > frequent outages. Case in point; I had to switch primary for a .ke
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> > domain of mine on
xname.org after numerous outages caused by a
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> > clueless, rude and arrogant admin (whose employer I'd paid for
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> > registration and DNS/email service). Never had issues since.
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> > The sad bit is that the said admin couldn't for the life of him see
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> > why I was complaining, yet it was business-critical...
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> So the issue is DNS admins failure .... interesting. I have to say its
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> quite concerning because how will folks debug more complex stuff like
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> Authoritative name servers with V6 and DNSSEC?.
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> We definitely need to fix this. Not good at all! :(
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> Mich.
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