This small audience also consists of predominately people that administer networks and would be doing such things. I'll be you'll find a vastly different percentage of the Cross Stitch Operators Group even know what DNS is, much less have any desire to change it.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bass" <davidbass...@gmail.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> Cc: "Brielle Bruns" <br...@2mbit.com>, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 10:47:55 AM Subject: Re: Thank you, Comcast. I disagree...the point of what I sent (missed by some) is that in just this small audience there are many that do/have/know about customers that run their own stuff. Trying to blow it off, or minimize those customers just makes you seem a little arrogant. Nothing worse than an arrogant business... > On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > I think you'd be hard pressed to find more than a tenth of a percent of > people attempt to run their own DNS server. Some do because they think it'll > be better in some way. Rare is the occasion where anything user configured > would outperform a local DNS server managed by the ISP that does no form of > trickery. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brielle Bruns" <br...@2mbit.com> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 9:56:40 AM > Subject: Re: Thank you, Comcast. > >> On 2/26/16 6:27 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: >> "you will also block legitimate return traffic if the customers run >> their own DNS servers or use opendns / google dns / etc." >> >> I'm fine with that. Residential customers shouldn't be running DNS >> servers anyway and as far as the outside resolvers to go, ehhhh... I >> see the case for OpenDNS given that you can use it to filter (though >> that's easily bypassed), but not really for any others. > > > Except that half the time people run their own DNS resolvers because > their provider's resolvers are > > 1) Absolute garbage and either fail queries for no reason, don't respond > at times, respond super slow, etc. > > 2) Hijack NXDOMAIN for advertising / money generation > > 3) Hijack responses to inject their own ads, popups, etc. > > > > -- > Brielle Bruns > The Summit Open Source Development Group > http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org >
