Re: [nznog] TelstraVodaHug core lag

On 18/09/2013, at 8:10 PM, Juha Saarinen wrote:

On 18/09/2013, at 7:39 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:

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Out of curiosity, what is "casual DNS serving"? :P

A "technical term". Will explain at the next NZNOG meet if I ever get to go to one…

So what you're saying is, you made it up and are never going to tell us? :-P

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I assume you mean to ask what a good open DNS recurser is? (recursor?) Let me turn that around - what are you trying to achieve that you don't by using your ISP's recursive DNS server? (that's a much better than recurser)

For those situations when either the ISP is known, but there are DNS problems, or when it isn't, and you'd want to try with another server.

I use 8.8.8.8 for quick hacks like that, then I turn it off again.

One of those things that I've come across a great many times lately, with subcontractors putting in 8.8.8.8 etc as a QAD fix.

I guess it's better than them putting in another ISPs DNS servers. There's a lot of people doing that. Some ISPs even put other ISPs' DNS servers in their BRASes.