17 Aug
2004
17 Aug
'04
5:14 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Paul Wouters wrote:
Unfortunately, SiteFinder did not have such a destructive effect as we had all wanted it to have. Statistics in our network showed no significant increase in dns traffic. Especially if you compare it against things like SoBig:
In terms of DNS traffic leaving your network, it was the same amount of traffic. Query packets got sent to the gtld servers, and Answer packets came back. Since the wildcard answer was an 'A' (this is it bub), and not 'NS' (go look over there willya?), the SiteFinder IP address was not sent any DNS traffic, thus there was no appreciable increase in DNS traffic. --==-- Bruce. NXDOMAIN != Connection Refused