[12572] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: one-letter domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Sun May 22 08:27:59 1994
To: billc@pegasus.mail.att.net (WJCarpenter)
Cc: gwh@crl.com, com-priv@psi.com, namedroppers@rs.internic.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 May 1994 19:07:57 -0000."
<BILLC.94May21150643@pegasus4.ATT.COM>
Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 21:52:43 -0700
From: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
>What would this accomplish exactly? I think it actually makes things
>(slightly) worse as far as Workload of the Universe is concerned.
>Suppose I want to get something about buzz.artichoke.com...
>
>Current way:
>
> I query root servers for "buzz.artichoke.com"
> Root server points me to server for "artichoke.com"
> Further queries about "*.artichoke.com" don't involve root
> servers
>
>Proposed way:
>
> I query root servers for "buzz.artichoke.com"
> Root server points me to "ns-a.com-nic.net"
> "ns-a.com-nic.net" points me to server for "artichoke.com"
> Further queries about "*.artichoke.com" don't involve root
> servers
The primary gain is that the workload on the root server goes
down a whole lot; the root server, in fact, can be reduced
to something merely doing pointers to the appropriate secondary
server based on a parsing of the requested address.
I'm not on the internic staff, but I am worried about that
sort of issue (both ns performance and database size/management).
-george william herbert
gwh@crl.com Speaking only for myself
