At 2/19/99, 03:18 PM, Greg Skinner wrote:
>"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>At 10:47 AM 2/19/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:
>>>There is a comprehensive discussion of the effect of adding many more
>>>TLDs on DNS by Keith Moore. You can find it at
>
>>>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/email/late.htm
>
>>>It is submission #423.
>
>>I just looked, it is NOT a technical discussion and he adds about 80%
>>personal opinion. As such, it doesn't answer el's question.
>
>Most of what I have read on this subject is personal opinion, as there
>is no hard data (we don't have hundreds of thousands of TLDs now), nor
>have there been simulations, as far as I know.
>
>I happen to agree with the opinions expressed by Keith Moore, as they
>match with my experience.
>
>But even you would have to admit that by adding lots of TLDs, extra
>orders of magnitude are induced in the DNS process, because queries
>are going further up the tree than they would otherwise be.
In theory, I would agree with Greg.
In this case, however, .COM requests *always*
go to the top of the tree (i.e. the root servers)
because the .COM zone is being resolved by the
root servers. That, mind you, is 3,000,000+ SLDs
being served by today's root servers.
Jay.
