> On 25 Nov 2019, at 22:19, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What do you consider to be a lot of queries? The root server system
>> collectively handles 500K-1M queries per second. That seems rather a
>> lot to me. YMMV.
>
> But globally? For the entire planet?
Yes. If you consider a well-behaved recursive resolver would only query the
root a few times a day (probably < 10), a query load of 0.5-1M/second seems on
the high side, even for the whole planet.
> The data could have monetary value.
Could. But nobody's selling those data. And that's probably illegal anyway
thanks to GDPR.
> Passwords that are otherwise difficult to come by might be leaking.
Good luck finding those in amongst the terabytes of dross that hits the root
every day.
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