Akamai in DNS blacklist

[kevinmcm]

Stuff doesn't load because Akamai is in Sonic's DNS blacklist. Nothing ending with akamaihd.net resolves.

I'm not a fan of this DNS blocking. It will drive people to use Google's stats collecting DNS.


nslookup fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net
Server: 192.168.1.10
Address: 192.168.1.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net canonical name = dns-blocked.sonic.net.
Name: dns-blocked.sonic.net
Address: 209.204.190.68


nslookup fbstatic-b.akamaihd.net
Server: 192.168.1.10
Address: 192.168.1.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
fbstatic-b.akamaihd.net canonical name = dns-blocked.sonic.net.
Name: dns-blocked.sonic.net
Address: 209.204.190.68


nslookup anything.akamaihd.net
Server: 192.168.1.10
Address: 192.168.1.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
anything.akamaihd.net canonical name = dns-blocked.sonic.net.
Name: dns-blocked.sonic.net
Address: 209.204.190.68

[dane]

We have resolved this, and published a notice: http://corp.sonic.net/status/2013/06/12 ... st-errors/

The phishing and malware protection that the site blocking provides helps protect customers, but it's not without risk. Erroneous black-listings like this have occurred, and we'll continue to weigh the benefits versus risks of this feature.

Note BTW that we do offer DNS servers locally which do not include this feature. Details here: https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/List_of_rec ... NS_servers