On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com> wrote:
In most cases it already is. He completely fails to address the concept of Anycast DNS and assumes people are using statically mapped resolvers.
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.
I don't know why Paul is so concerned, just think how many F root mirrors it helps him sell to unsuspecting saps. The Henry Ford analogy was amazingly apt, imagine 'ol Henry coming back and claiming that automatic transmissions were a misuse of the automobile. Drive Slow ('cause someone left the door open at the old folks home)