[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]
“The company has now dipped its fingers into the basic
plumbing of the net – the domain name service. And when someone as
big and powerful as Google starts meddling in such areas, one
really has to take a backwards step and wonder why.“The public version of why Google decided to set up a public DNS
– and those sexy IPs, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are quads that any
sysadmin would kill for – is all good. Remember Google is the
company that does no evil?“Everyone needs DNS and most people use the two servers provided
by their internet service providers. Some doughty souls run their
own DNS. Then there are public DNS services like David Ulevitch’s
OpenDNS which has proved, over the years, to be of value to
millions.”
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