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Re: filtering 1918 (was Re: Summary with...: Domain Name System ...)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Aug 18 19:08:35 2004

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 18 Aug 2004 23:07:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <g3657goyhn.fsf@sa.vix.com>
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vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie) writes:

> in the example i posted earlier, i included some numbers from one member of
> the "f troop", which showed ~21M packets from rfc1918 space over the course
> of ~106 days.  that's 241 queries per second.  on only one host of many.
> granted it's not much as a percentage of the total, but it's not "a few".

sorry, i mixed up my numbers.  it's only a trickle of queries per second at
any given f-root node.  but it sure adds up when you look at all f-root nodes
together, or when you look at all root servers together.
-- 
Paul Vixie

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