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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
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