On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Matt Ranney wrote:
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?
Plenty of folks do, some gomer registers a domain, doesn't tell his upstream about it, doesn't do DNS for it, but hands out an email address of joe@my.*&^ed.domain.com, they try and email him.. you get the picture. Day after day we see dozens of lame delegation errors. Very often for the same domains time and time again. I don't usually agree with Karl but in this case he's right.
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.
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