CDR: Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking

[Joe Baptista]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 George at 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

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