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Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed Feb 19 01:53:06 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:50:54 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Someone asked me privately:
> Hey, in case you /dev/null Karl: The 5ms at 1200 req/s criteria in
> RFC2010 refers to the latency of a request from the local network, right?
> The RFC doesn't make that clear, and in fact would make it sound like it's
> supposed to be able to do 5ms over wider areas.
RFC2010 did not intend to amend the universal constant "C".