[AusNOG] Google DNS

[Paul Gear]

On 14/10/14 06:39, Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
>> ________________________________
>> From: Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
>> To: Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> 
>> Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 1:26
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Google DNS
>> ...
>> OpenDNS appears to be weathering the increased load, people that want local DNS can try switch their 8.8.8.8 to 208.67.222.222  (might be smart long term anyway, to have 2 different upstream DNSs, and with ODNS being on Equinix syd no reason why not).
> Actually, your ISP's DNS resolvers are better to use, so that e.g., their local Akamai cluster or other local CDN servers are used.
>
> Lower DNS lookup latency can be another reason to use your ISP's resolvers, in particular if you aren't located in Sydney where the ODNS (and Google?) resolvers are and your ISP has resolvers in your state.

Why wouldn't the standard recommendation be to run an independent,
root-aware local resolver on every site?  DNS is pretty much designed to
work around these sort of things - the trend to force most of the
world's DNS traffic through a select few servers seems to me to be
flying in the face of that design.

Paul