[21946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Nov 26 03:40:51 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 00:19:04 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@alink.net>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
CC: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, nanog@merit.edu
Stephen Stuart wrote:
>
> > Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly
> > application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that
> > problem. If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can
> > _afford_ a 4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?
>
> Jerry Scharf once walked me through the math on .com with DNSSEC.
>
> 4 GB ... heh, heh, heh. :-)
Or you can do a 50-line hack in a unix kernel and do it with
a dozen cheapo PCs. Details are left as an excercise to the
reader. Hint: hashing is a well-known but often overlooked trick.
--vadim
