[53236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who are the root server operators?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Nov 6 00:26:10 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:25:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3smyhw564.fsf@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 4 Nov 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > And remember - Paul Vixie has shown that 10% of the inbound traffic at
> > c.root-server.net is bogus rfc1918 sourced. Making the addresses public
> > will serve as a DDoS vector against the root operators....
>
> moreover, duane wessels came to eugene last week to tell us that only 2.1%
> of the queries hitting F-root were valid. there's got to be a way to make
> that better.
"For example, one bad release of popular domain software drove averages
to over five times the normal load for extended periods. At present, we
estimate that over 50% of all root server traffic could be eliminated by
improvements in various resolver implementations to use less aggressive
retransmission and better caching."
Mockapetris P., Dunlap K.; Development of the Domain Name System,
Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88, Computer Communication Review Vol 18, No 4,
August 1988.
