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RE: Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer 'blackouts' inevitable
From: "John Lightfoot" <jlightfoot () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:38:39 -0400
Exactly how much can it cost to serve up those requests... I mean for 9$ a month I have a cpu that handles 2000 *Recursive* Queries a second. 900 bux could net me *200,000* a second if not more. The government overspends on a lot of things.. they need some one whos got the experience to use a bunch of cheap servers for the resolvers and a box that hosts the IPs used and then distributes the query packets.For $50/mo I can have a connection from Comcast. That doesn't mean that I could run my own cable to the nearest major exchange for anywhere near
$50.
Also, what's the failover if your $9/mo CPU develops a bad RAM card? Does your $9/mo CPU have sufficient geographic diversity to survive a backhoe? And about 4 zillion other things that people that actually have to run
production
services worry about...
Why should the taxpayers pay for geographic diversity or any of those 4 zillion other things required to keep these DNS servers up so infected computers can continue to reach the Internet? I don't really mind paying $9/300 millionths per month to help folks make a smooth transition back to proper DNS, but I wouldn't want to pay much more. The FBI should have just pulled the plug and let the folks who can't connect inundate their ISPs with support calls, which might encourage the ISPs to be a little more proactive about shutting down the botnets they host.
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- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable bmanning (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Nick Hilliard (May 24)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Florian Weimer (May 28)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable cncr04s/Randy (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Christopher Morrow (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Miles Fidelman (May 31)
- Re: Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable valdis . kletnieks (May 31)
- Re: Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable cncr04s/Randy (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Nick Hilliard (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Richard Golodner (May 31)
- RE: Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer 'blackouts' inevitable John Lightfoot (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable david raistrick (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Leo Bicknell (May 31)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Owen DeLong (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Joe Abley (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ?blackouts? inevitable Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable valdis . kletnieks (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable George Herbert (May 23)
- Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable Brett Watson (May 23)