North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
On 22.07 17:08, Paul Vixie wrote: > > .... therefore if there were a drop in TTL for root-zone data, it would > only be a multiplier against 2.1% of f-root's present volume. I am not worried so much about the root servers here because of the reasons you cite. The root server system is engineered to cope with hugely excessive loads already. I am worried about all the other root servers that have to deal with much lesser query loads and might feel the impact of lowered TTLs much more. > ... and the impact of > having it in many TLD's will be to put downward pressure on TTL's. this > all needs to be looked at very carefully. Yes, we need to keep an eye on this and argue against lowering TTLs across the board for little good reasion.
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