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Actually, no, that won't work anyway. All of the services (except
Akamai, and I will admit that both MTS and Shaw have their own
Akamai caches anyway) use anycast IP addresses, so you literally
"can't get there from here" unless you (or your ISP) peers at MBIX.
If you use those IPs, you'll be magically directed at the "closest"
node that your ISP has access to - usually in Calgary, Toronto, or
Chicago.<br>
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As I said, MBIX is not intended for individual consumers; it's
intended for the ISPs that serve individual consumers, and
medium-to-large businesses that see value in having faster access to
the various DNS services, NTP services, etc., and/or the other
members' networks.<br>
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For a slightly artificial example, a Credit Union might consider
joining MBIX in order to be able to say that your secure banking
transactions never leave the province, never mind the country. I'm
quite confident that neither the NSA nor CSE have installed a tap at
MBIX - that would be difficult to hide from us. (Of course, since
neither MTS nor Shaw peer at MBIX yet, it's still statistically very
likely that the NSA is listening to your secure banking transactions
no matter who you use. Of course, we all know HTTP/S is completely
secure. And they only collect metadata anyway, right? *cough*)<br>
Mind you, at the same time, that hypothetical CU now has access to a
high-accuracy, high-availability NTP cluster without having to
acquire their own stratum-1 time source, and they could host their
DNS on CIRA's D-ROOT system for guaranteed global availability,
and... and... and... <br>
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One other thing to note about MBIX: it's what's called a
"Default-Free Zone". MBIX is *not* an ISP. MBIX will not route
your traffic to the internet at large. MBIX can only get your
traffic from one MBIX member to another. Of course, many MBIX
members are ISPs, so it's easy to make transit agreements with any
number of them.<br>
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-Adam<br>
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suppose, with MBIX's permission (perhaps for a special
"individual use only" fee), you could simply use MBIX's NS IP
addresses in your NS settings. You would get some of the
benefits, like avoiding the DNS query leaving Winnipeg if it's
locally resolvable by MBIX.<br>
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really, what business does the average joe have in using MBIX
services for free, when MBIX is a clearly-stated "members
only" service (at $1200 per year), not a public freebie.
Sounds like a typical stingy Winnipegers' attitude.<br>
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W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331,
+1-204-515-1701, +1-204-515-1700,
+1-810-471-4600, +1-909-361-6005<br>
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2016-04-15 Adam Thompson wrote:<br>
> For the average end user using their ISPs nameserver,
it's... well,<br>
> out-of-scope. But MBIX isn't for individuals, it's
for ISPs and<br>
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Is there a way to leverage this (MBIX NS) for the average
joe (me) who<br>
runs their own resolving/caching BIND on Shaw?<br>
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