Re: Akamai Edgekey issues ?

[Scott Hulbert <scott () scotthulbert com>]

Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:

> Why not just use the TWC nameservers,
> if thiings work when you use them instead
> of the Google nameservers?

One reason would be that TWC used to hijack failed DNS requests and show
advertisements (
http://netcodger.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/roadrunner-returns-to-dns-hijack-tactics/
).

Also, Google DNS and OpenDNS helped manually clean up bad records after the
NYTimes had their nameservers changed at the TLD registry (
http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks).

—Scott