Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

Greg Rundlett greg.rundlett at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 22:36:32 EST 2006


On 11/14/06, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
> Paul Lussier wrote:
> >...
> >>> How about the GNHLUG server?  Can we make that a DNS server as a
> >>> "membership" benefit?
> >>   Well, from a policy standpoint, I have no objections, but I wonder
> >> about some technical aspects.  I'm not sure about the performance of
> >> that system.  More importantly, unless you have a static IP address,
> >> how do we open it up to just "members"?
> >
> > We couldn't really restrict it, not practically anyway.  Perhaps we
> > could play with DNSSEC, but I don't believe that actually is intended
> > for this purpose.
>
> That server (liberty) is bandwidth restricted. I don't recommend opening
> it up to the world as a DNS server.
>
Hey, liberty is the name of my home 'server' ;-)


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