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

[Paul Vixie]

> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:17:40 -0600
> From: Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> 
> 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:

as i said in "what dns is not" (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302)
the benefits of outsourcing web publication do not include reliably short
paths from the average consumer to a distributed server.  there are some
benefits but they aren't touted.  this one, that's touted, doesn't happen
often enough to be worth its salt.