On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <182e6e76-f12a-41d9-800a-e5e40f3c3...@direwolf.com>, John > Orthoefer > writes: >> Genuity/GTEI/Planet/BBN owned 4/8. Brett went looking for an IP that = >> was simple to remember, I think 4.4.4.4 was in use by neteng already. = >> But it was picked to be easy to remember, I think jhawk had put a hold = >> on the 4.2.2.0/24 block, we got/grabbed 3 address 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and = >> 4.2.2.3 so people had 3 address to go to. At the time people had = >> issues with just using a single resolver. We also had issues with both = >> users and registers since clearly they aren't geographically diverse, = >> trying to explain routing tricks to people KNOW all IPs come in and are = >> routed as Class A/B/C blocks is hard. > > I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still > under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points > of failure and as such don't have enough independence.
It's an open recursive name server, it is free, has no SLA, and is not critical infrastructure. Besides, it is quicker / better to use your local ISP's RNS. If something goes wrong, you can fall back to OpenDNS or L3, and, of course, yell at the _company_you_are_paying_ when their stuff doesn't work. :) -- TTFN, patrick
