[28266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about strain on the A root server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Sat Apr 22 20:24:21 2000
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:18:22 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.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.
I have heard from a source that Windows 2000 is sending a whole bunch of
"interesting" packets towards the root servers. I don't know if this is
true or not, but if it is, this seems to coincide timing wise. The
person I talked to referred to the packets as "update notifications" or
something like that. Maybe NOTIFY implemented weirdly?
- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ
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