[7640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett L. Hawn)
Tue Feb 18 19:09:57 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:05:46 -0600 (CST)
From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To: Matt Ranney <mjr@ranney.com>
cc: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970218154347.26747E-100000@wacky.eit.com>
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Matt Ranney wrote:
> > BTW, churn is the right word. Its taking anywhere from 5-10 *seconds* to
> > come back as NXDOMAIN on each request for those that fail to resolve, and
> > this is from the IANA roots.
>
> So aside from programs like yours, who ever asks for domains that
> aren't in use?
Plenty of folks do, some gomer registers a domain, doesn't tell his upstream
about it, doesn't do DNS for it, but hands out an email address of
joe@my.*&^ed.domain.com, they try and email him.. you get the picture. Day
after day we see dozens of lame delegation errors. Very often for the same
domains time and time again. I don't usually agree with Karl but in this
case he's right.
> > This IS a functional problem - and worse, all those non-existant zones and
> > the VM churn they generate on the COM TLD servers is probably the REASON
> > that we're looking at this kind of horrid performance!
>
> Thats fair, I guess. Perhaps some of those $100 in fees for unused
> domains could be used to buy more RAM for root server operators.
Or better yet, to teach the idiots at NSI how to maintain a database.
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