<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Unless the company's line of business makes running a recursive server a "core competency:"</div><div><br></div>+1, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage</a> for a basis for my reasoning.<div><br></div><div>Did the company build their offices, manufacture their furniture, pave and reseal their parking lot? (I ask rhetorically/sarcastically.)</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2013, at 19:54, Jared Mauch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'll say no. They don't have resources to deal with 98 angry users when DNS fails. Using OpenDNS or the ISP is likely the best choice. Most large ISP dns servers are good. <br><br>Jared Mauch<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Paul Hoffman <<a href="mailto:paul.hoffman@vpnc.org">paul.hoffman@vpnc.org</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A fictitious 100-person company has an IT staff of 2 who have average IT talents. They run some local servers, and they have adequate connectivity for the company's offices through an average large ISP.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Should that company run its own recursive resolver for its employees, or should it continue to rely on its ISP?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Paul Hoffman<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dns-operations mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net">dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations">https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dns-jobs mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs">https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs</a><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>dns-operations mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net">dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net</a><br>https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations<br>dns-jobs mailing list<br>https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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