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Re: That MIT paper

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Fri Aug 13 00:42:43 2004 
> i must have misspoken.  when i asked "what if 20,000 sites decreased their
> cache utilization by 1% due to a general lowering of TTL's inspired by
> MIT's paper" i was wondering if anyone thought that the result would be a
> straight across-the-board increase in traffic at the root servers.  there
> are theories that say yes.  other theories say it'll be higher.  others,
> lower.  any study that fails to address these questions is worse than
> useless.

no.  it may happen to be studying things other than the root servers.
and that's ok and often useful

randy