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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: [...] > What do you think happens to the nameservers on the net when they're asked > for a domain that doesn't have functional servers, and they sit and churn > trying to resolve the names? > > BTW, churn is the right word. Its taking anywhere from 5-10 *seconds* to > come back as NXDOMAIN on each request for those that fail to resolve, and > this is from the IANA roots. So aside from programs like yours, who ever asks for domains that aren't in use? > This IS a functional problem - and worse, all those non-existant zones and > the VM churn they generate on the COM TLD servers is probably the REASON > that we're looking at this kind of horrid performance! Thats fair, I guess. Perhaps some of those $100 in fees for unused domains could be used to buy more RAM for root server operators. -- Matt Ranney - [email protected] This is how I sign all my messages. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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