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From: "Stefan Neufeind" <nanog@stefan-neufeind.de>
On 01/24/2014 09:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Given how much traffic these days is CDN and streaming, is that number really supportable?
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/down-goes-google-down-goes-internet
In the interview they are saying that if Google is down, lots of people don't have DNS anymore. So that accounts for an even larger drop than just "no Youtube". Hmm - why would people use those resolvers, besides being lazy in configuring a proper resolver-address.
The amount of fun I had before I discovered "ipconfig /flushdns" suggests to me that that's not really a supportable argument.
Of course if Google is down we have no Google search (well, might be a problem in some cases), no Gmail etc. (fine with me) and no Youtube (hmm, but we'll survive without it). Come on ...
If the average user is *so* dependent on Google, we have an even larger problem. Maybe like IPv6-day etc. lets try a "Google outage day" once a year as a training :-)
We just did; weren't you paying attention? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274