[2614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ehud Gavron)
Mon Apr 22 20:48:42 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:42:30 -0700 (MST)
From: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
In-reply-to: Your message dated "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:45:23 +0800"
<9604222245.AA15747@butler.ncube.com>
To: avg@postman.ncube.com
Cc: john@interport.net, smd@icp.net, nanog@merit.edu, GAVRON@ACES.COM
Vadim asks:
>Why not to restrict first-level domains to companies
>which can demonstrate that they have 1000+ hosts?
Creating a problem to solve a problem is not a solution.
Paul already said that a 16MB 486 can handle root DNS just fine.
This does not bespeak of a problem requiring "renumbering"
hundreds of thousands of domains.
FURTHER, your "big win" is only a 1/26 lessening of load.
If the problem is such that 1/26 is a "big win" I think
it's not big enough to rename the Internet for.
...
>What we should worry about is number of first-level
>domains/number of hosts ratio. It is the same problem
>as with routing. The solution is also the same --
No, it's not the same problem as routing. All routers with
non-default rules need to know about all routes. The only
possible analogy for that in DNS is root nameservers. These
(as Paul pointed out in a previous post, since he runs F)
are not saturated, and don't require that many resources.
If you feel the growth of domain names is such that it will
outstrip a 486 w/16MB soon, tell me when it will be a
SIGNIFICANT problem. I.e. when will it outstrip a real
machine (Sun, VAX, Alpha, SGI) with real memory (64MB?
128MB? 4G?)
Remember, upgrading HUNDREDS of routers all running 45Mbps
is a priority. Upgrading 8 boxes running BIND and doing
it well is a much much much lower priority.
>mnemonic can be used to distinguish between thousands of
>nearly identical small businesses?)
>--vadim
>PS. Obviously if IBM registers 100 domain names it is
> still a lot less damage than a small ISP (with 1000 dial-up
> customers) which registers a domain name for every such
> customer. Big folks registering POISONOUS-BURGER.COM and
> SHIT-ON-TV.COM aren't really a problem. Zillion of
> MOM-AND-POP.COMs is.
Ehud
