Bill, On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:58 PM, bill manning wrote: > right... but only rarely in the DNS world do edge nodes actually go hit > the authoritative sources. much/most of the time they hit a cache, often > one run by a random third party. I would truly love to see the data you have that backs this up. Pointers? (Note that this is not rhetorical -- I'm doing some work right now in which this info would be quite helpful). > oh... leakage into the public DNS means that the root nameservers have to be > over-provisioned by a couple orders of magnitude to deal with the crap that should > be in private space but leaked out and can't be resolved. I thought the (vast) over-provisioning of the root servers was to cope with DDoS attacks. Regards, -drc _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf