On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 02:01:47 am Reinier Battenberg wrote: > One was if i could not get into trouble and the other one > is 'what if you cant route your traffic through the uixp > anymore' > > Well, sorry, i think its a cool idea. I would test it out > if i got the full picture on my own little DNS server. > > But with pessimists like this, we're not getting > anywhere.
Reinier, perhaps I should dispense with the succinctness and be more explicit. The issue isn't about being "pessimistic" or "cool". You are not an operator that provides services to paying customers. So with all due respect, I may not really expect you to get it. As an operator, where customers are using my network to get to the world, and to important resources such as Google, I cannot afford to implement a strategy that would effectively create a situation where I can no longer, potentially, serve my them, without a clear way to mitigate or backout of such a situation, should it arise. If I'm a research network, and my users know that I'm always on the bleeding edge, and cannot guarantee them any level of service stability, yes, I will tinker as much as I can as that's the best use of my shillings. But paying customers on a commercial service help run my network, pay my staff's salaries and keep us all in business. The decisions I make about how I run my network need to keep their interests in mind, at all times. If I'm going to do something like this, I would do it properly, because all my cool points will fly out the window the moment customers can't reach Google, and I'm unable to fix that in less than 10 seconds. My question to you, and anyone else that thinks this is a neat trick, was very simple: what is your fall-back plan? Anybody that has run a network knows that this is a critical part of implementing a new feature. Mark.
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