-----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:59 AM To: Vernon Schryver <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dns-operations] Should medium-sized companies run their own recursive resolver?
> >On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Vernon Schryver <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Folks like Comcast have large validating resolvers. Their customers >>>should use them. Folks here are surely going to do the right thing the >>>majority of the time. The vast majority of others are going to set >>>things up once and it *will* be left to rot. This isn't intentional, >>>but it naturally happens. >> >> The question had nothing to do about J. Sixpack with 37 televisions, >> phones, and other devices behind a NAT router owned by and remotely >> maintained by Comcast. Instead the question concerned a business with >> 2 IT professionals. Relying on distant DNS servers is negligent and >> grossly incompetent for a professionally run network. > >As with many things we will have to disagree. > >Not everyone has the same skill set as those on this list, and that curve >goes down rather quickly. I get your point, but also disagree with the subset of folks who maintain DNS is so hard... Really? You can install, configure and keep an AD forest running -- including keeping the intranet free of the latest trojan scum the C*O's and sales staff bring in from the local coffee shop -- but you can't install BIND? The first decision for a mid-sized company (the subject doesn't say small) is to invest something in at least one IT person. Once you have that, I assume that person can read. When I first started working at small ISPs, I didn't know much...but I read and learned. Today that is easier than ever! If you can run yum/apt/whatever and Google "bind template" you're 90% there. The remaining 10% can be easily had from most any of the available DNS books, and all of that 10% won't be needed by most of the mid-sized businesses. So with minimal competency (e.g. book learning lacking real experience) you can do better than the 80/20 generally required by IT projects. So I guess it's more about "lazy" vs "hard" -- or interview practices more than DNS. Google also makes conducting a good IT interview easier than ever. ;-) _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
