[AusNOG] Google DNS

[Skeeve Stevens]

I also use them in a lot of IoE devices, especially for longevity... when
DNS servers are decommissioned for some reason (which does happen), it is a
pain to get everything changed.

I hope that the Google Public servers will be around for many years to
come, so yes... convenience and portability (moving between providers).

I just had a situation crop up where about 100 sites used to be on TPG and
a few years later moved to another provider due to business decisions...
migration was easy, but the DNS all broke badly as they were no longer
allowed to query the hard set servers.

We wont have that issue with googles servers.



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On 15 October 2014 09:08, Justin Sullivan <js at sublimeip.com> wrote:

> Here here, definitely agree laziness (or if you want to be more positive
> about it, "convenience") is a huge factor for 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4.
>
> JS
>
> On 15/10/2014 7:47 am, James Morgan wrote:
>
>> As Google and OpenDNS's resolvers seem to be relatively popular (I'm
>>>
>> not completely sure why, ISPs should be running well performing
>> resolvers themselves)
>>
>> Just on that, why are they so popular?  For me it's partially laziness.
>> The addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are easy to remember, and particularly
>> if you're configuring a connection on an ISP that isn't your own it's
>> often a pain to go and find those details.  Internode for example has
>> this five clicks deep and a long scroll off the front page (via search).
>> TPG has it two clicks deep with a short scroll.  iiNet is two clicks
>> with a longer scroll.  Telstra (for BigPond) is three clicks deep,
>> originally leading to fairly useless information.
>>
>> Of course, you'll struggle to see any of these without original DNS
>> settings... ;)  Maybe that's where it comes from?
>>
>> James.
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