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Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:20:42 -0500
On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <182E6E76-F12A-41D9-800A-E5E40F3C3B7D () direwolf com>, John Orthoefer writes:Genuity/GTEI/Planet/BBN owned 4/8. Brett went looking for an IP that = was simple to remember, I think 4.4.4.4 was in use by neteng already. = But it was picked to be easy to remember, I think jhawk had put a hold = on the 4.2.2.0/24 block, we got/grabbed 3 address 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and = 4.2.2.3 so people had 3 address to go to. At the time people had = issues with just using a single resolver. We also had issues with both = users and registers since clearly they aren't geographically diverse, = trying to explain routing tricks to people KNOW all IPs come in and are = routed as Class A/B/C blocks is hard.I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points of failure and as such don't have enough independence.
It's an open recursive name server, it is free, has no SLA, and is not critical infrastructure. Besides, it is quicker / better to use your local ISP's RNS. If something goes wrong, you can fall back to OpenDNS or L3, and, of course, yell at the _company_you_are_paying_ when their stuff doesn't work. :) -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?, (continued)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Steve Ryan (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Joachim Tingvold (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Brielle Bruns (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Orthoefer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Levine (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Florian Weimer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Sean Reifschneider (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Mark Andrews (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Richard Golodner (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Scott Howard (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Orthoefer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Levine (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Steve Ryan (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Joe Abley (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Mark Andrews (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Joe Abley (Feb 14)
- RE: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Frank Bulk (Feb 16)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 16)