Re: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:56:51 EST, Joe Baptista said:
> No - and I can confirm that non exists or at least i have not seen any in
> the public arena.
So there's *NO* public data to back it up that you know of..  They claim to
have several times more customers/users/whatever than even AOL, and *there is
no data* to back that up?

The truly interesting question would be: How much of their traffic is
"value-added", and not just acting as a caching name server for the current
root?  If they have 150M users, but only 379 of them use it as anything other
than a cache for the existing root, they're no more interesting than any
of the other alt.roots that you label "peanuts".

But I doubt we'll get any hard data of *that* detail when they haven't even
quantified how many users they have.

> But I would not discount new.net's claims.  I'm sure they can support
> their claims.  At the very least they do have market share in root server
> operations irrespective of the means used to calculate it.
No data, but they want you to believe them anyhow.

It's called "Snake Oil", Joe....
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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