[dns-operations] After Google Mail, Google Docs, Google Wave... Google DNS

[Noel Butler]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:26 -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> > This is going to throw a wrench into CDNs like Akamai that use the IP of
> > the requesting DNS server to determine where to direct your request:
> 
> Using *any* external DNS recursive service limits the effectiveness of
> GeoIP when used by authoritative servers, at least without a DNS
> equivalent to HTTP's X-Forwarded-For.


Correct, but does google warn you of things like this? bet not, and
since when have you known any company to point out the cons of using
their products...

maybe we need to alter our support forms,   "Are you using our DNS
servers  Y/N "
if ($ourdns != Y) {print "No fault found"; exit;}   :)


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