Steve Muchai wrote:
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.......
Very strange - what are they running - i bet not bind!
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?
No. There was talk to have OpenDNS anycasted - not sure if this has been implemented. Plus i dont particularly like OpenDNS because of how they handle NXDOMAIN.
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...
So the issue is DNS admins failure .... interesting. I have to say its quite concerning because how will folks debug more complex stuff like Authoritative name servers with V6 and DNSSEC?. We definitely need to fix this. Not good at all! :( Mich.