>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:19:35 -0500 (CDT) >From: Jeff Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: jeff@localhost >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], TINC List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [IFWP] root server statistics >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004261554130.15731-100000@localhost> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Richard J. Sexton wrote: > >> >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:08:23 -0400 (EDT) >> >From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: Re: [IFWP] root server statistics >> > >> >There's nothing to fix - it's fine. The extra time difference is because >> >the USG roots only provide a refferal, ORSC and almost everyone else does >> >recursion which provide a complete answer and as a result there is more >> >time in the response. >> > >> >Optimally - all roots should only provide a refferal and the systems >> >should have no other load then dns service but at this time that's an >> >extraordinary and not very practical thing to do. > >I don't believe this is the case. Perhaps there are exceptions -- two for >TINC -- but the rule should be that any server authoritative for "." does not >do recursion. It's up to the local infrastructure, not the root servers, to >provide recursion. > >Ironically, name.space is the only group besides the USG with all >non-recursive servers. > >> ... [root server stats clipped] > >Is the code that generated this list available anywhere? I'd be interested in >seeing what exactly it is doing to generate these stats. > >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jeffenstein.org/ > http://www.tinc-org.com/ An alternative DNS root. >"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a >courtesy detail." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ph-1.613.473.1719 It's about travel on expense accounts to places with good beer. - BKR
