# Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. # # This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. # # The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of # 399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of what the main root servers have? Then they are doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. Even with browsers frozen... I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. So, Solaris at least, is generating 100% unnecessary DNS traffic. Oh, Joy.