Bill,

On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:58 PM, bill manning wrote:
>       right... but only rarely in the DNS world do edge nodes actually go hit
>       the authoritative sources.  much/most of the time they hit a cache, 
> often 
>       one run by a random third party.  

I would truly love to see the data you have that backs this up.  Pointers?  
(Note that this is not rhetorical -- I'm doing some work right now in which 
this info would be quite helpful).

>       oh... leakage into the public DNS means that the root nameservers have 
> to be
>       over-provisioned by a couple orders of magnitude to deal with the crap 
> that should
>       be in private space but leaked out and can't be resolved.    

I thought the (vast) over-provisioning of the root servers was to cope with 
DDoS attacks.

Regards,
-drc

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