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Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer =?windows-1252?Q?=91blackouts=92_?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Thu May 31 11:39:35 2012
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:38:33 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CALvoTpvCJV66xVo-JEud-Zk57tF9KocAiDKjqR15=VADRE8DRg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
cncr04s/Randy wrote:
> Exactly how much can it cost to serve up those requests... I mean for
> 9$ a month I have a cpu that handles 2000 *Recursive* Queries a
> second. 900 bux could net me *200,000* a second if not more.
> The government overspends on a lot of things..
Looks like you just answered your own question:
> they need some one whos
> got the experience to use a bunch of cheap servers for the resolvers
> and a box that hosts the IPs used and then distributes the query
> packets.
I expect part of what the FBI is paying for is the time of people with
that expertise.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
