17 Sep
2013
17 Sep
'13
2:38 p.m.
On 18/09/13 18:58, Nathan Ward wrote:
As has been mentioned by others, don't use 8.8.8.8 for DNS if you're in NZ because Akamai will make your life hard.
Random thought ... how bad would it be for a service provider to locally redirect 8.8.8.8/32 into their own DNS forwarders? I mean it would probably violate the Principle of Least Astonishment, at least for folk who are paying attention, but random users who have been told that "it's better to use 8.8.8.8" without fully understanding the implications might get better performance... -- don