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Re: Root Anycast

2004-05-18 10:19:06

On 18 May 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

If you'd like to unify something, perhaps it could be DNS client behaviour
and network-owner recursive caching forwarder design.  And while you're at
it, please outlaw those fiendish DNS-based load balancers.  f-root should
still be a 486DX2-66 like it was in ~1995, rather than fifty 1GHz pentiums,
and the 500X load 10 years later is due to client stupidity, not population
growth or backbone speed increases.

Not completely due to client stupidity,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/05/dud_queries_swamp_us_internet/

it is however a factor :)

regards
joe baptista




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