[30706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Follow-up to "ROOT SERVERS"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Fri Aug 25 15:37:17 2000
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:35:00 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, bverd@netsol.com
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
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At 12:15 PM -0700 8/25/00, Sean Donelan wrote:
>How many queries do those four servers normally handle?
Using the most basic of logic (slightly flawed admittedly)...
r = number of daily root-server .com requests
t = total number of root-servers
b = 4 (number of bad root servers)
(b/t)*r
Now, since I'm suspecting that "r" is a sufficiently high value, I
would say it would not be "negligible".
If it was "negligible" and "users would not notice", then it wouldn't
have been reported to NSI, as we are all end-users of their system,
and we noticed. :)
> But a press release should keep close to what happened.
... and not an outright lie? ;-) Sounds like NSI is starting to
take some pointers from the Microsoft School of Press Releases.... ;-)
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