Re: random DNS, was news from Google

Will be interesting to see if ISPs respond to a large scale thing like this taking hold by blocking UDP/TCP 53 like many now do with tcp/25 (albeit for other reasons). Therein lies the problem with some of the "net neturality" arguments .. there's a big difference between "doing it because it causes a problem for others", and "doing it because it robs me of revenue opportunities".

I do hear of ISPs blocking requests to random offsite DNS servers. For most consumer PCs, that's more likely to be a zombie doing DNS hijacking than anything legitimate. If they happen also to block 8.8.8.8 that's just an incidental side benefit. R's, John