Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking
#Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. # #This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. # #The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of #399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of what the main root servers have? Then they are doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. Even with browsers frozen... I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. So, Solaris at least, is generating 100% unnecessary DNS traffic. Oh, Joy.
Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. > # > #This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. > # > #The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of > #399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. > > Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of > what the main root servers have? Then they are > doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Not all the time. I've noticed some corporations (big ones like hyundai) use their own roots to block traffic to their employees. There's a wildcard record in the root so that if an employee goes to www.sex.com they end up at www.hyunai.com - or something to that effect. > Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. > > I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving > the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT > (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. > This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything > over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. > > Even with browsers frozen... > > I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating > DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS > queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. That is odd. DNS can carry alot more then just dns. Maybe that's whats' hapeening. regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster
Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking (fwd)
At 7:57 PM -0500 11/5/00, !dr.baptista wrote: >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:34:04 -0500 (EST) >From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking > > >Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. > >This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. > >The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of >399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. > >In my opinion - this is significant. And it puts a whole new twist on the >song - what a difference a day makes. > This is indeed great news! I don't follow DNS/ICANN issues much, but it seems apparent that ICANN's heavy-handed, US-centric, politically correct, imperialist policies have backfired. Perhaps we should be _thanking_ Esther for this sabotage rather than criticizing her! --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
