[73114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: That MIT paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 13 00:40:53 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:39:54 -0700
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> i must have misspoken. when i asked "what if 20,000 sites decreased their
> cache utilization by 1% due to a general lowering of TTL's inspired by
> MIT's paper" i was wondering if anyone thought that the result would be a
> straight across-the-board increase in traffic at the root servers. there
> are theories that say yes. other theories say it'll be higher. others,
> lower. any study that fails to address these questions is worse than
> useless.
no. it may happen to be studying things other than the root servers.
and that's ok and often useful
randy
