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Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update


From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:04:08 +0700


On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Joe Abley wrote:

If the DNS was as unreliable as those words suggested, nobody would use it.

I see evidence of this unreliability every day, so I must respectfully disagree.

;>

The reality is that everybody uses it.

The reality is that they don't really have a choice, now, do they?

;>

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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