On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Anand Vaidya <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 03 June 2009 pm 21:16:05 Marvin Pascual wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your > > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for > > FREE? > > > > > If you are > > > a) A control freak > Perhaps, also.. * aaaa or other unusual records * geographically distributed name servers * ip anycast * access to log files * funky tricks to return results based on querying ip, eg. - together with ip anycast, set up your own poor man's cdn - even without anycast, dns can be used as a primitive load balancer or to direct to your country-specific webservers - obfuscation. eg, to my friends, my hostname resolves to my ip, but to spammers or other "bad" people, it resolves to 127.0.0.1 (or maybe 204.11.0.166) * special apps which you don't want to explain to your isp, eg. - decss mirror - dns tunnels (eg nstx)
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