On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:03:41PM -0700, Nick Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said:
> The last time I had a reason keep a copy of the root file locally ... > I think .com alone weighed in at over 3 gigs So what? We're talking about the root zone, not about ".com". > I know you weren't serious, but at it's uncompressed size in 1999 it > would be bandwidth cost efficient to send the root file to someone > only if they were to perform approximately 6.3 million queries per > version of root file Are *you* serious? The root zone is 62459 bytes, uncompressed. This is a few hundreds of typical DNS requests. > (which would of course become outdated during transfer). Again, you're not serious. The root zone is modified every two-three days in average. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
