enable DNS
Marc Lucke
marc at marcsnet.com
Sun Jun 13 09:38:37 UTC 2004
get a room, guys.
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 21:20 6/12/2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>> The actual root servers have a lot of extra capacity. The servers more
>> likely to need to be beefed up are the gtld servers that handle .com.
>> However, neither ICANN nor Network Solutions get a lot of sympathy
>> from me.
>> For what they charge they can run a few more servers and the world's
>> ISPs
>> can run a few less.
>
>
> 1. In this kind of relatively simple conversation, a "root
> server" and a "global top-level domain server" are functionally
> equivalent.
>
> 2. Your point is based on the presumption of overcharging by
> ICANN and NSI.
>
> 3. You have no way of knowing whether #2 is correct, hence
> your assumption and subsequent behavior are irresponsible.
>
> 4. Regardless of whether #2 is a correct or mistaken
> assumption, inappropriate or incorrect behavior by someone else does
> not provide a convenient excuse for us to also engage in inappropriate
> or incorrect behavior. If they are thieves, you are willing to become
> one too...? If they are rude, you have insufficient elegance in your
> soul to abstain from rudeness yourself?
>
>> The amount of extra traffic is very small compared to other things I do.
>> A mistaken download can waste more network bandwidth than I use for DNS
>> lookups in a year.
>
>
> Irrelevant. The amount of extra traffic *you* incur is of no
> consequence to this particular discussion. The question relates to how
> much extra traffic would the *root/gtld* servers suffer if everyone
> (or lots of people) set up caching nameservers to do direct root/gtld
> queries without checking a forwarder first.
>
>> The real difference is whose servers handle the requests.
>> ICANN and Network Solutions get paid a lot more money than they
>> should be
>> to run this stuff. They can afford to handle a little cost shifting from
>> ISPs to their servers.
>
>
> See 1-4 above.
>
>
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