Subject: Re: Open Resolver Problems Date: Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:21:42PM +0200 Quoting Niels Bakker (niels=na...@bakker.net): > * patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) [Mon 01 Apr 2013, 18:18 CEST]: > >Of course, since users shouldn't be using off-net name servers > >anyway, this isn't really a problem! :) > > You're joking, right? Should they also use only the telco-approved > search engine, via the telco-hosted portal?
Far too many (perhaps not Patrick) in this thread are not joking. Laughter gets stuck in my throat, as we say in Sweden. Having proper Internet access is more and more a privilege for the Internet gentry that are clued and able to pay for a box in a colo or similar. The unwashed masses are left with "broadband" We can't call it "Internet" because there are a few raving graybeards that claim they invented it and intended it to be two-way instead of stuffing .flv down peoples facebook-viewing devices while also supplanting cable TV with demand streaming. </rant> What percentage of the SOHO NAT boxes actually are full-service resolvers? I was under the impression that most were mere forwarders; just pushing queries on toward the DHCP'd full service resolvers of the ISP. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 Everywhere I look I see NEGATIVITY and ASPHALT ...
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