....at what point is the Internet a piece of infrastructure whereby we actually need a way to watch this thing holistically as it is one system and not just a bunch of inter-jointed systems? Who's job is it to do nothing but ensure that the state of DNS and other services is running as it should....who's the clearing house here.
The Internet: Discovering new SPOF since 1969! :) Thanks.
Perhaps we should setup a distributed system for checking things rather than another SPOF. That's distributed both geographically and administratively and using several code-bases. In this context, I'd expect lots of false alarms due to people changing their DNS servers but forgetting to inform their monitoring setup (either internal or outsourced). How would you check/verify that the communication path from the monitoring agency to the right people in your NOC was working correctly? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.