On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
Job Muriuki wrote:
Its not dns servers i tried opendns and google's stil nothing.
I have observed that alot of folks tend to mention using OpenDNS and GoogleDNS.
Am curious to find out why the change?. IMHO recursive name servers are the easiest to build, operate and maintain.
True. Still, one tends to get their SPs DNS failing all too often. Have personally had issues in the past and keep wondering why.......
Secondly KENIC went to alot of effort to have DNS Root-Server instances and .org, .COM/.NET instances locally.
But there's no open recursive servers, right?
Using OpenDNS and GoogleDNS does not make use of this implementations taking away any benefits associated with them being local. For instance when there's an international link outage, and one is using the free DNS servers, one will not be able to access locally available content/services.
True....
Point being that the DNS infrastructure was implemented to reduce the overall dependence on International connectivity for locally hosted services/content. The use of the International free DNS servers tends to moot this intent.
Am definitely interested to hear why folks are changing.
Poor service, poorly maintained DNS servers, poor response time, frequent outages. Case in point; I had to switch primary for a .ke domain of mine on xname.org after numerous outages caused by a clueless, rude and arrogant admin (whose employer I'd paid for registration and DNS/email service). Never had issues since. The sad bit is that the said admin couldn't for the life of him see why I was complaining, yet it was business-critical... BR, S -- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.