[ Poor form, replying to my own post…] My last message may have come off slightly more pissy than intended… sorry…
W On May 17, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > > On May 17, 2012, at 12:25 PM, David Conrad wrote: > >> Warren, >> >> On May 17, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: >>> On May 17, 2012, at 11:57 AM, David Conrad wrote: >>>> On May 17, 2012, at 3:25 AM, Joe Abley wrote: >>>>>> Even ignoring folks who slave the zone now, is coordinated measurement >>>>>> of the root system realistically possible today given the >>>>>> business/political/philosophical environments of the root operators? >>>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> [citation needed] >>> >>> DITL >> >>> CAIDA >>> TLDMon >>> DNS Measurements with RIPE Atlas Data >>> DNS-OARC >> >> Do any of these cover all instances of all root servers? > > Not as far as I know, but they cover enough to give you a picture of what's > happening… > > I took a Statistics 101 class in university. First day the lecturer provided > an example scenario -- you run a rubber band factory and want to to figure > out how strong your rubber bands are. You can be completely sure of your > result by testing each and every band till it breaks, and then calculating an > average… but then you don't have any rubber bands to sell -- so obviously you > should just test a (large enough) sample…. I say "obviously", but for some > reason the class just *couldn't* wrap their brains around this. After the > third session discussing this I got bored and wandered off… > > I don't believe that you can (nor need to) cover all instances of all root > servers. Folk are able to resolve example.com (and dancing hamsters.net). > This works, and works well. There are folk who care deeply about this, and > are, IMO, doing a fine job of it (and I've read most of the reports / > easements from stuff like the above, chatted with many of them, etc., so I > ain't just tooting' smoke). > > I realize others have different opinions, but at the moment I've gotten bored > with this discussion, and am wandering off… > > Regards, > W >> >> Regards, >> -drc >> > _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
