[757labs] Now: Fios fail Was: BFYI - 2nd Mid-Town Tunnel Support

[Adam Crosby]

huh?  DNS works awesome.  Just not Cox's DNS servers, heh.
Run your own, or use google...

On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:58 PM, Trevor Lewis wrote:

> 
>  I used to use my own caching DNS server for just this reason. It was much more reliable to cache off a combination of another ISP, my hosting provider, and Cox than to do Cox alone. 
> 
> <rant>
>  The DNS system is due for a serious overhaul anyway, with the advent of poorly maintained load distribution systems and load balancing DNS servers that don't work, extremely low TTLs on A records and no quick way to determine the life of a system from the users perspective, it leads to thousands of ms of latency before you even start dumping data across a circuit which is over saturated to begin with.
> 
>  I'm sure there's a witty metaphor about toilets, sewers and shit in here somewhere, but I'm too tired.
> </rant>
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:45 PM, matthew green <chef at 757.org> wrote:
> thats why not to use there dns servers
> 
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Adam Crosby <adam at uptill3.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> And, while you're at it, you might want to notice that the actual performance
> >> of FIOS internet service is still a fraction of what was available a decade
> >> ago throughout Korea at a much lower price.
> >>
> > Who cares if you can get gigabit to the house for $19.99 a month, if you have to take a 1200ms jump to get to the Internet, and you and 100m of your closest friends are all jamming your gigabit/s traffic through a single OC-192?  Korea has had the functional equivalent of a super fast LAN, where there was no content, and stuffing everybody onto the same few relatively tiny outbound pipes.
> >
> > I don't think bandwidth to the home is a limiting factor anymore - anything greater than 3-5mb/s is just frosting for long downloads or stealing shit on the Internet.  Low latency, and low congestion up-stream are WAY more important for quality of service comparisons, such as streaming videos or surfing the web.
> >
> > Hell, just DNS services being slow can make it seem like you're on dial-up again (and Cox is REALLY REALLY REALLY bad at running DNS for some reason).
> >
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