On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com> wrote:
I'd rather send him to something more open like kernel.org; anything but Google's DNS. Google's DNS is a little too nefarious for my taste.
<tinfoil hat off> nefarious? as a route object to track for selection of a default route? really? </tinfoil hat off>
I think watching something 'very stable' like.... 198.6.0.0/16 may be useful, but in the end "pick some route that's long lived and not in just your upstream's control', that you see via both upstreams." seems like the best option.
I think that a better word than "nefarious" would be "smart" -- Google's DNS may be doing its own optimizations which may conflict with your "route that's long lived" constraint. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb