Re: random DNS, was news from Google

[John Levine <johnl () iecc com>]

> Will be interesting to see if ISPs respond to a large scale thing like
> this taking hold by blocking UDP/TCP 53 like many now do with tcp/25
> (albeit for other reasons). Therein lies the problem with some of the
> "net neturality" arguments .. there's a big difference between "doing it
> because it causes a problem for others", and "doing it because it robs
> me of revenue opportunities".

I do hear of ISPs blocking requests to random offsite DNS servers.
For most consumer PCs, that's more likely to be a zombie doing DNS
hijacking than anything legitimate.  If they happen also to block
8.8.8.8 that's just an incidental side benefit.

R's,
John