[dns-operations] Getting rid of ISP's recursive DNS servers? (Was: Eircom "DNS Attacks" ?

Stefan Schmidt stefan.schmidt at freenet.ag
Sun Jul 19 21:19:28 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:23:54PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> An interesting point of view (Paul Jakma is a known BGP guru):
> 
> http://pjakma.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/sharing-dns-caches-considered-harmful/
> 
> I wonder what do the root name server operators think about his
> suggestion?

While not a root-server operator i still would like to give an opinion
on operating large DNS caches.

First things first: Operating shared caches surely isn't harmful when
they are a) fast and b) not spoofable.


	Stefan
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