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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/08/2013 01:27 PM, Peter
Tiggerdine wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Unless you're a teir two ISP or higher, pointing you're dns forwarders
to you're upstream providers assists with DNS load balancing like
Akamai and other content providers.</pre>
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Don't most of those return a local IP address based on the
GeoIP/AS-path of the source request anyway?<br>
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<pre wrap="">Also take the weights of the root
name servers. Generally your lookup times will be quicker as well.
It's one of the many reasons why using opendns or google dns servers
isn't a great idea.</pre>
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Interested in any alternatives to OpenDNS you can suggest who:<br>
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<li>Host services locally<br>
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<li>Offer customisable blacklisting on a per-client-IP basis with
a web-based administration interface</li>
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Regards,<br>
Paul<br>
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P.S. I can't resist. Please read this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe</a> <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span><br>
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