On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Curtis Maurand <cmaur...@xyonet.com> wrote: >> >> I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org; anything but >> Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste. > > <tinfoil hat off> > nefarious? as a route object to track for selection of a default route? > really? > </tinfoil hat off> > > I think watching something 'very stable' like.... 198.6.0.0/16 may be > useful, but in the end "pick some route that's long lived and not in > just your upstream's control', that you see via both upstreams." seems > like the best option.
I think that a better word than "nefarious" would be "smart" -- Google's DNS may be doing its own optimizations which may conflict with your "route that's long lived" constraint. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb