On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: [...]
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.
So aside from programs like yours, who ever asks for domains that aren't in use?
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!
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. -- Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com This is how I sign all my messages.