[AusNOG] Optus outage last night?

[Jason Leschnik]

That's a really good point Evan, I didn't even think about ISPs
manipulating DNS records in order for them to push traffic through
peerings. Definitely a Catch-22. I'm all ears for advice. I've heard
people swear by only using Google's DNS and those who swear that ISPs
DNS is the gold standard.

On 5 July 2017 at 19:29, Evan Dent <evan at evandent.com> wrote:
> It's a real tricky thing to get right. I can't give the right answer there.
>
> One thing to remember that if you are not using your ISPs DNS server, you
> may be subject to non optimal routing. For your home situation probably not
> an issue but on your larger connections, it could be a issue. I have seen
> traffic going overseas rather than going to the CDNs in Aus which has
> amounted in reduced performance and increased costs.
>
>  It's a catch 22 issue either way you try to deal with it all.
>
> I too would love to hear input from others on this.
>
>
> On 5 Jul. 2017 6:41 pm, "Jason Leschnik" <jason at leschnik.me> wrote:
>
> What's generally the best practice for setting home resolvers? I've
> been bitten a few times with issues from using Exetel's DNS servers.
> Would it be better to point hosts to a local cache and have that
> forwarding to something like Google? Or maybe Google + OpenDNS?
>
> Regards,
> Jason.
>
>
>
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