When the Starr report ws released on the net, a warning was
issued on NANOG a day or two earlier.
Offering a dangling carrot like free domains is generally going
to result is a very large amount of traffic.
Indeed, for a lark I tried to call up www.registerfree.com
at 9:05. No DNS. I dpeculat this is because their namesevers
were thrashing to death (more than two would have been
a good idea) so I tried the IP address directly. After 5
minutes I got a blank white page, and after a few more
minutes Netscape gave up with a "server not responding"
error.
We're talking serious rsource problems here and it's
no wonder the registry choked.
Ya know, for an idea 4 years ago to make more registries
this is a great example of having all your eggs in
one basket and why that's not such a good idea.
At 02:26 AM 3/24/00 -0500, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:19:36 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ross Wm. Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Bill Gerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: registerfree.com is overloading OpenSRS
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>> > NSI Registry was formally offline from 7:15 through 8:30 EST. When they
>> > came back online, the backup volume of registrations created a resource
>>
>> Sorry about the misunderstanding. I was talking about registry lookups.
>> Registry lookups were working via other ICANN registrars starting at about
>> 8:10pm EST. At 9pm EST, the OpenSRS lookup server started returning "Unable
>> to establish socket" errors and continued to do so until about 9:50pm EST.
>> Registerfree.com's promotion started at 9pm EST. Just a coincidence I
>> guess?
>
>Although the distinction is not lost on me, the practical differentiation
>between these two resources is not within my grasp. Based on my
>understanding of Tom's analysis, other registrars were able to grab all of
>the available connections leaving us in the lurch. As I type this, Tom is
>still encountering a variety of problems talking to the RRP. (terminated
>connections and the like)
>
>>
>> > allocation issue. As I understand it from Tom, other registrars managed to
>> > grab the lionshare of RRP resources leaving some of us in the cold. Tom is
>> > currently writing me up a complete brief on this issue.
>>
>> Please, if you find additional information, share it with the live RSPs.
>>
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>Will do.
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>-RWR
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