On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, "Nick Patience" wrote:

NSI seems slightly unsure as to the main reason for the increase in hits, but speculates that one of the reasons may be says the main reason for this is that ISP's are using different caching techniques and more & more searches are going right to the top of the tree than before.

What do people on this list feel about this as a reason? It seems a little woolly to me.

It seems rational to me. I know I used to forward off to my upstream and rely on their cache, but now I just dig it straight from the root servers and rely on my own cache. Probably less efficient, but takes a point of failure out of the loop. It's difficult getting your upstream to admit to DNS problems sometimes.