My excuse is - operators limit "the effort expended in fighting entropy." Imagine an average operations environment operating as most environments go.
One admin comes in a decides they can do a better job. And the admin does, stellar talent. Then the said stellar admin decides to move on career-wise (naturally) and is replaced by a less attentive (or differently attentive) admin, i.e., someone who's knowledge of DNS comes only from a paper book. Eventually one day something breaks and then... .... ...include here "the only one who can fix it has left." I mention this because I think that is more relevant than: On Nov 26, 2013, at 21:46, Joe Abley wrote: > The root nameservers are administered by people who have incentives to do a > good job. Resolvers set up by some random admin one rainy Thursday afternoon > to transfer the root zone from some place or places that happen to work that > day constitute an unmaintained critical service, and end-users will pay for > it when it stops working and nobody can figure out what it is supposed to be > doing. I'd argue that the resolver admin is also incentivized to do a good or better job too. Joe's right in general, but it's not that the admins are lazy (putting words in his mouth) - it's the energetic ones that can/may prove to be the "root cause" some day. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edward Lewis NeuStar You can leave a voice message at +1-571-434-5468 Why is it that people who fear government monitoring of social media are surprised to learn that I avoid contributing to social media?
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