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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org>]

I see your point, however this might be just as annoying and it defeats the 
purpose of having a global network. If we had anycast, the user would have a 
very transparent experience. With proxying, the user would experience issues 
if any of the proxy servers went down as well as the fact that inevitably we 
wouldn't have a proxy server in every location. Now we have DNS servers all 
over and people can choose which they please. With the proxy idea, they would 
all be located in 3 different locations that may or may not be close to the 
user.  Overall, this might be a good idea in some respects, but in others it 
would just be more painful.  


On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:05 PM, opennic AT lewman.us wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:51:31 -0400
> "Aaron J. Angel" <aaron.angel AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> DNS needs to be reliable.  Newcomers should have second-thoughts. 
>> Knowing little about DNS is not a valid excuse; one knows this before
>> committing.  Too much feel-good focus on the operator costs client
>> satisfaction and stability.
> 
> Perhaps this is veering off-topic, but assuming users are going to look
> up T2 addresses and use them as their DNS seems less customer-friendly
> than it could be. And asking them to check back to see if their chosen
> IP addresses are still valid seems a stretch.
> 
> As an example, Google DNS offers two IP addresses (8.8.8.8 and
> 8.8.4.4.) for their resolvers globally. While Opennic is not google,
> and probably cannot do anycasting, we can probably come up with some
> sort of proxy system where users add 1-3 IP addresses which in turn
> query the available T2 resolvers. Anycasting is the best proven
> solution here, but unless T2 operators understand route injection and
> can announce their own IP ranges, it's a moot point. I can run one of
> the proxy dns resolvers if we decide this is a smart method. This also
> removes the need to be worried about T2 resolvers, because they aren't
> client-facing and they are automatically added/removed as needed.
> 
> Personally, I use my own T2 server as my resolver, because I run it and
> I know it's always available (also because it's a public nameserver for
> a growing number of ICANN domains).
> 
> -- 
> Andrew
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