----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefan Neufeind" <[email protected]>
> On 01/24/2014 09:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Given how much traffic these days is CDN and streaming, is that > > number really supportable? > > > > http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/down-goes-google-down-goes-internet > > In the interview they are saying that if Google is down, lots of people > don't have DNS anymore. So that accounts for an even larger drop than > just "no Youtube". Hmm - why would people use those resolvers, besides > being lazy in configuring a proper resolver-address. The amount of fun I had before I discovered "ipconfig /flushdns" suggests to me that that's not really a supportable argument. > Of course if Google is down we have no Google search (well, might be a > problem in some cases), no Gmail etc. (fine with me) and no Youtube > (hmm, but we'll survive without it). Come on ... > > If the average user is *so* dependent on Google, we have an even larger > problem. Maybe like IPv6-day etc. lets try a "Google outage day" once > a year as a training :-) We just did; weren't you paying attention? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
