[dns-operations] Oh, What a Fragile Web We Weave: Third-party Service Dependencies In

[Jim Reid]

> On 26 Jun 2018, at 16:52, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> An important observation in here is
> that, in the concentrating-services Internet economy, people have
> dependencies on others that they don't even know about.  In the
> physical world, people have often specified redundant transit only to
> find themselves hosed when all their redundancy traverses a common
> peering point somewhere upstream.  This result is a similar one, only
> in a much more ubiquitous (and, sometimes, fragile) way.

We are in violent agreement Andrew.

All I was saying is this is hardly news. Or shouldn't be. And of course it's increasingly difficult to fully evaluate or audit the level of redundancy is as expected. That shouldn't surprise anyone either.