[28264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about strain on the A root server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Sat Apr 22 15:34:21 2000
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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:31:37 EDT
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: "Nick Patience" <nick@patience.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, "Nick Patience" wrote:
>
> NSI seems slightly unsure as to the main reason for the increase in hits,
> but speculates that one of the reasons may be
> says the main reason for this is that ISP's are using different caching
> techniques and more & more searches are going right to the top of the
> tree
> than before.
>
> What do people on this list feel about this as a reason? It seems a
> little
> woolly to me.
It seems rational to me.
I know I used to forward off to my upstream and rely on their cache, but
now I just dig it straight from the root servers and rely on my own cache.
Probably less efficient, but takes a point of failure out of the loop.
It's difficult getting your upstream to admit to DNS problems sometimes.
