> If you want most reliable, then the closest hop to you should be the most reliable (there's no accounting for poor sysadmin'ing), which is often the ISP, but

> If you want most reliable, then the closest hop to you should be the most reliable (there's no accounting for poor sysadmin'ing), which is often the ISP, but sometimes not. I'd argue that accounting for poorly managed ISP resolvers is a critical part of reasoning about reliability.