News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What DNS Is Not. Parent comment

Re:What DNS Is Not by neilc on Sunday November 08, 2009 @08:48PM (#930205)
Another way to phrase that would be "Short-term advertising revenue vs. ensuring the vitality of fundamental Internet infrastructure."
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What DNS Is Not by tptacek on Sunday November 08, 2009 @10:47PM (#930335)
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What DNS Is Not by neilc on Sunday November 08, 2009 @10:52PM (#930348)
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What DNS Is Not by tptacek on Sunday November 08, 2009 @10:53PM (#930350)
Yeah, and implementing CDN GTM with DNS doesn't threaten the Internet (the NXDOMAIN thing, again, clearly does).
[ Parent | on HN ]