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Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JP Viljoen)
Thu Jan 10 08:43:40 2013

From: JP Viljoen <froztbyte@froztbyte.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130110044127.6CAD32DEE3E2@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:43:26 +0200
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 10 Jan 2013, at 6:41 AM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> No. A /64 has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses.  Even if you
> had machines that supported zettabytes of data the zone would never
> load in human lifetimes.

Because hitting things in memory is the only way we can ever respond to =
a data request.

This wording is about as excellent as those who've been quoted on record =
to say people wouldn't want TVs ("boxes of wood") in their living rooms, =
etc.

-J=


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