on 7/30/2002 1:10 PM John Stracke wrote: > False. The caching system means that the roots don't pay per query; > they pay per cache miss--and the number of cache misses is going to be > roughly proportional to the number of TLDs. The number of cache misses will be in relation to the frequency at which queries arrive versus the TTL for the TLD's authoritative servers. The number of TLDs is completely irrelevant. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/