Comments on: Akamai awesomeness and Opendns lameness http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/ > yours truly. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sandipb http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 sandipb Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:01:09 +0000 http://blog.sandipb.net/?p=327#comment-1610 :) Are you saying that the assumption that DNS servers of Internet users are located near the users is unreasonable? Isn't that how the vast majority of the Internet world works?<br> <br>OpenDNS is not a bad thing other than the fact that it does break CDNs, but then that by itself ensures that most of the major websites which use CDNs end up giving a bad experience to OpenDNS's users. :) Are you saying that the assumption that DNS servers of Internet users are located near the users is unreasonable? Isn't that how the vast majority of the Internet world works?

OpenDNS is not a bad thing other than the fact that it does break CDNs, but then that by itself ensures that most of the major websites which use CDNs end up giving a bad experience to OpenDNS's users.

]]> By: Tarun http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Tarun Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:42:04 +0000 http://blog.sandipb.net/?p=327#comment-1609 Is it OpenDNS lameness or lameness of Geo-DNS based CDNs, which believe you are located in the country where your DNS lives mostly Is it OpenDNS lameness or lameness of Geo-DNS based CDNs, which believe you are located in the country where your DNS lives mostly

]]> By: Sajal Kayan http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 Sajal Kayan Mon, 24 May 2010 04:03:55 +0000 http://blog.sandipb.net/?p=327#comment-1591 I too had the same observation... <a href="http://www.sajalkayan.com/in-a-cdnd-world-opendns-is-the-enemy.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sajalkayan.com/in-a-cdnd-world-opend...</a><br><br>Nowdays almost all sites with any decent traffic use a CDN... even Google has a direct backbone link to all countries... Would appreciate a lot if you could run the script at <a href="http://www.sajalkayan.com/dnstest.py" rel="nofollow">http://www.sajalkayan.com/dnstest.py</a> and send it to my email address mentioned with the comment... really looking forward to include results from an Indian IP to my benchmarks. I too had the same observation… http://www.sajalkayan.com/in-a-cdnd-world-opend…

Nowdays almost all sites with any decent traffic use a CDN… even Google has a direct backbone link to all countries… Would appreciate a lot if you could run the script at http://www.sajalkayan.com/dnstest.py and send it to my email address mentioned with the comment… really looking forward to include results from an Indian IP to my benchmarks.

]]> By: Ashish SHUKLA http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/comment-page-1/#comment-1328 Ashish SHUKLA Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:45:49 +0000 http://blog.sandipb.net/?p=327#comment-1328 I always knew it always sucked due to no NXDOMAIN response, but never noticed it fucks up Akamai so badly...lol. Running your caching nameserver (query *root-servers* of ICANN or OpenNIC, directly) is highly recommended, being responsible yourself for any cache poisoning attacks... :) I always knew it always sucked due to no NXDOMAIN response, but never noticed it fucks up Akamai so badly…lol. Running your caching nameserver (query *root-servers* of ICANN or OpenNIC, directly) is highly recommended, being responsible yourself for any cache poisoning attacks… :)

]]> By: Ashish SHUKLA http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/04/23/akamai-awesomeness-and-opendns-lameness/comment-page-1/#comment-2313 Ashish SHUKLA Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:45:00 +0000 http://blog.sandipb.net/?p=327#comment-2313 I always knew it always sucked due to no NXDOMAIN response, but never noticed it fucks up Akamai so badly...lol. Running your caching nameserver (query *root-servers* of ICANN or OpenNIC, directly) is highly recommended, being responsible yourself for any cache poisoning attacks... :) I always knew it always sucked due to no NXDOMAIN response, but never noticed it fucks up Akamai so badly…lol. Running your caching nameserver (query *root-servers* of ICANN or OpenNIC, directly) is highly recommended, being responsible yourself for any cache poisoning attacks… :)

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