Re: Recommended DNS server for a medium 20-30k users isp

[Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Sheesh! People claiming firewalling DNS is bad, but hide the receipts behind “pay my bar tab” evasion.

Here’s the real bar talk: put up or shut up. LOL! Data or it never happened.

-mel via cell

> On Aug 9, 2025, at 5:42 AM, Måns Nilsson <mansaxel () besserwisser org> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: Recommended DNS server for a medium 20-30k users isp Date: Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 05:19:39PM +0100 
> Quoting Nick Hilliard via NANOG (nanog () lists nanog org):
> > Mel Beckman wrote on 08/08/2025 17:08:
> > > Appropriately sized, HA firewall pairs mitigate this pretty handily.
> >
> > Mel,
> >
> > Please don't let me stop you from doing this. The failure modes are really
> > quite entertaining, at least from a distance. Anyone got popcorn?
>
> I suppose you bring the beer then, because it's going to take both to
> endure the cringefest that is "cascading resource exhaustion in DNS /
> firewall setup" -- it can pretty fast end up snowballing completely out
> of hand. Don't ask me how I know without picking up the bar tab.
>
> /Måns
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