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Re: What DNS Is Not
From: Dave Temkin <davet1 () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:06:51 -0800
Alex Balashov wrote:
In most cases it already is. He completely fails to address the concept of Anycast DNS and assumes people are using statically mapped resolvers.For example, perhaps in the case of CDNs geographic optimisation should be in the province of routing (e.g. anycast) and not DNS?-- Alex
He also assumes that DNS is some great expense and that by not allowing tons of caching we're taking money out of peoples' wallets. This is just not true with the exception of very few companies whose job it is to answer DNS requests.
-Dave
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- What DNS Is Not Alex Balashov (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Dave Temkin (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Alex Balashov (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Dave Temkin (Nov 08)
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- Re: What DNS Is Not bmanning (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Andersen (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not bmanning (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Andersen (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not David Conrad (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Paul Ferguson (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Alex Balashov (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Dave Temkin (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Scott Howard (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Paul Wall (Nov 08)
- Re: What DNS Is Not Joe Greco (Nov 08)