We actively sought reciprocal secondaries, and offered and received reciprocal query hosts, from other regional ISPs when I was CTO @ ADN.
We saw it as "strengthening the regional Internet". So our users used CTSnet as their tertiary NS, and CTSNet used ours, FE. Of course, not CTS/CARI and ADN are all AIS, so the point is moot. > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:25 PM > To: 'Joe Abley' > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? > > We do. It's at our upstream provider, just in case we had an upstream > connectivity issue or some internal meltdown that prevented those in > the > outside world to hit our (authoritative) DNS servers. Of course, > that's > most helpful for DNS records that resolve to IPs *outside* our network. > > Frank > > === > <snip> > > For what it's worth, I have never heard of an ISP, big or small, > deciding to place resolvers used by their customers in someone else's > network. Perhaps I just need to get out more. > > Joe > >
