Re: What DNS Is Not

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

And of course in many cases these are the same people who are benefiting significantly by the geo-aware (and sometimes, network-aware) CDN's that this type of DNS service provides. Scott.