On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:36:26AM -0500, Joe Maimon wrote:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:52:56 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
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Thank $DEITY for large ISPs running open resolvers on fat pipes .. those do come in quite handy in a resolv.conf sometimes, when I run into this sort of behavior.
--srs
Slightly OT to parent thread...on the subject of open dns resolvers.
Common best practices seem to suggest that doing so is a bad thing. DNS documentation and http://www.dnsreport.com appear to view this negatively.
er... common best practice for YOU... perhaps. dnsreport.com is apparently someone who agrees w/ you. and i know why some COMMERCIAL operators want to squeeze every last lira from the services they offer... but IMRs w/ unrestricted access are a good a valuable tool for the Internet community at large. IMR? - you know, an Interative Mode Resolver aka caching server.
Joe
--bill