* Jim Reid: >> On 25 Nov 2019, at 22:19, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: >> >>> What do you consider to be a lot of queries? The root server system >>> collectively handles 500K-1M queries per second. That seems rather a >>> lot to me. YMMV. >> >> But globally? For the entire planet? > > Yes. If you consider a well-behaved recursive resolver would only > query the root a few times a day (probably < 10), a query load of > 0.5-1M/second seems on the high side, even for the whole planet.
Up until recently, well-behaved recursive resolvers had to forward queries to the root if they were not already covered by a delegation. RFC 7816 and in particular RFC 8198 changed that, but before that, it was just how the protocol was expected to work. _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
