On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:
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We're now well into the "C"s, and so far 32% of the NS lines in the TLD list for COM file fail one of these four tests!
This is pretty clearly unacceptable, and far worse than I had ever imagined it was.
So does the fact that there are lots of unused-yet-allocated domains in .com have any negative impact on you or anyone else? -- Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com
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What do you think happens to the nameservers on the net when they're asked for a domain that doesn't have functional servers, and they sit and churn trying to resolve the names? BTW, churn is the right word. Its taking anywhere from 5-10 *seconds* to come back as NXDOMAIN on each request for those that fail to resolve, and this is from the IANA roots. This IS a functional problem - and worse, all those non-existant zones and the VM churn they generate on the COM TLD servers is probably the REASON that we're looking at this kind of horrid performance! -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal