I give up we have different views on how DNS should work. Thanks for your insight. david
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > dave brett wrote: > > >> >Using the root servers defeats the purpose of the design of the whole > >> >structure. > >> > >> I'll respectfully suggest that I'm not able to find any evidence in > >> the RFC to support that conclusion. Read on ... > > > >I would not expect this to be part of the RFC. In my opinion this is a > >way of distrubiting the load > > I still think you're not seeing the big picture. I'm not talking > about running a separate cache on each workstation; that would be > silly and unproductive. Judicious caching is by design, and one cache > per isolated subnet is absolutely reasonable, and in fact is necessary > for good performance in some cases. And I don't think it's reasonable > to argue that only designated commercial and educational entities > should be allowed get authoritative answers, do you? > > Remember that the roots _only_ answer queries for top-level > namespaces. They are not recursive. That means (following my previous > example) that even if every one of my workstations hits a redhat.com > site every two minutes 24/7, the world only sees a maximum of 1 query > from my network every 33 hours for .com, and another single query for > redhat.com in a similar time frame. If you're trying to convince me > that this is a fast track to the demise of the internet, I'm gonna > have to giggle. > > For a discussion of some very real problems facing the root servers, > have a peek here: > > http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2001/DNSMeasRoot/dmr.pdf > > Cheers -d > > - -- > David Talkington > > PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp > - -- > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.5.8 > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 > > iQA/AwUBPGG79L9BpdPKTBGtEQIONQCgzuVVMjgbutjIcUeBGR4Vn4JrYRYAn1ow > DQFqBaC87rnPoqXV8vSf3c+J > =IFpR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
