On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
Thats fair, I guess. Perhaps some of those $100 in fees for unused domains could be used to buy more RAM for root server operators.
This has in fact been done. NSI sent me a replacement for F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET:
MESSAGE Alpha boot: available memory from _0xe46000 to 0x1fffe000 Digital UNIX V4.0B (Rev. 564); Mon _Dec 23 14:52:07 PST 1996 physical memory = 512.00 megabytes. available memory = 497.74 megabytes. using 1958 buffers containing 15.29 _megabytes of memory AlphaStation 255/300 system DECchip 21071
Hey, that's great. So are you seeing performance problems from all the bloat that they are allowing to creep into the tables? -- Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com This is how I sign all my messages.