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neilc
on Nov 9, 2009
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What DNS Is Not
Another way to phrase that would be "Short-term advertising revenue vs. ensuring the vitality of fundamental Internet infrastructure."
tptacek
on Nov 9, 2009
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CDNs threaten the vitality of fundamental Internet infrastructure
how
? CDNs
are
the vitality that keeps the fundamental Internet infrastructure relevant.
W.r.t. the NXDOMAIN trickery, though, he's completely right.
neilc
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Yeah, I was talking more about the NXDOMAIN stuff. As for CDNs, his gripe is with implementing CDNs via DNS, not the CDN concept itself.
tptacek
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Yeah, and implementing CDN GTM with DNS doesn't threaten the Internet (the NXDOMAIN thing, again, clearly does).
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