On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 George@orwellian.org wrote:
# 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.
Not all the time. I've noticed some corporations (big ones like hyundai) use their own roots to block traffic to their employees. There's a wildcard record in the root so that if an employee goes to www.sex.com they end up at www.hyunai.com - or something to that effect.
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.
That is odd. DNS can carry alot more then just dns. Maybe that's whats' hapeening. regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster