David and all,
Prove that NSi's root servers have between 4000 to 6000 hits per second
David.
Oh yes, and by the way, SROOTS servers have been tested at
10 times this hit rate. So you are wrong of that point as well...
David R. Conrad wrote:
> Roeland,
>
> > However, my point is that root-server operations are fairly trivial, if
> > they are automated.
>
> And of course, they are.
>
> > All of the errors
> > that I've seen in the past two years point to manual operations or
> > improperly tested scripts.
>
> You are not speaking of the operation of the root zone. The problems
> you are presumably talking about are the loading of the .COM/.NET/.ORG
> zones which NSI has botched on occasions in the past. This is _NOT_ the
> operation of the root zone (although about 1/3 of the root nameservers
> are also nameservers for the .COM/.NET/.ORG zones).
>
> > Yes, I have architected, designed, and run
> > systems that have many times the load that the root-servers have. That's
> > what I do for a living, build obscenely large systems. In my world,
> > tera-byte OLTP/OLAP systems are the norm.
>
> Meaningless. Have you ever run a _nameserver_ (note this tightly
> constrains the software you run -- BIND, despite is myriad warts, is the
> only nameserver software that can handle the load currently) that
> experiences 4000 to 6000 queries per second?
>
> Regards,
> -drc
Regards,
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