Actually the whole DNS caching and forwarding scheme is simply analagous to a nice and easy heuristic greedy algorithm. It's not perfect......but it's about the best you can do without being rediculous. -Tom > The last time I had a reason keep a copy of the root file > locally was back around 1999 and I think .com alone weighed > in at over 3 gigs (I think that was uncompressed, but I've > been hit in the head a lot in the last six years so I don't > quite remember). I know you weren't serious, but at it's > uncompressed size in 1999 it would be bandwidth cost > efficient to send the root file to someone only if they were > to perform approximately 6.3 million queries per version of > root file (which would of course become outdated during > transfer). Now lets say it's only a one time transfer and > after that only updates are sent. Well forgetting the > bandwidth generated by the updates, if a person performed 200 > queries a night it would take them about > 86 years to reach the 6.3 million needed to make the initial > transfer cost effective. > > I'm sorry, one should never answer angry and I'm well...okay > I just think it's stupid to do away with the root and I think > dns delegation has exquisite scalability and near absolute > empowerment to the people. Any possibility that the Internet > might not be able to support DNS resolver traffic because of > a root server bottleneck is beyond my concept of reality. > If it truly is a bottleneck then maybe we need to seek the > advise of some adult webmasters and ask them how they manage > to serve multiple terabytes of porn a day without breaking a > sweat or bringing down their ISP. Considering that when two > technical people have a discussion you end up with 3 opinions > that neither one agrees with I feel somewhat better not > "letting everyone play" in the root. In fact I'm all for > fairness but I'm not about to agree to tearing down a genius > system just so foreign nationalists can have their ego > satisfied by sticking their finger in the pot (Jefsey the > foreign nationalist comment IS NOT directed at you at all - > it's directed at the politicians and delegates who live life > like it's a game of push and pushback). > > My apologies for the rant, I'm sure I'll regret it when > someone who knows more than me replies explaining why I'm wrong.
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