Re: [ga] .et wildcarded

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Dambier wrote:

> Sounds like ".local" has become more prominent than ".com".
> Root-servers report they receive 50 times as much traffic.

Yes - thats an excellent example of a TLD that gets alot of traffic.  
.LOCAL and .LOCALHOST are one of the worse offenders.  The public root 
sees this traffc and handles it appropriately.  I think the only roots 
that support .local and .localhost is the public roots.

cheers
joe baptista

> Well, I run my own private, little rootserver.
>
> It is meant for internal use only but I do receive traffic
> allthough I am on a dynamic ip-address.
>
> Kind regards
> Peter and Karin
>
>
> George Kirikos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > --- Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 18-Nov-07, at 9:17 PM, Joe Baptista wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wildcards in fact are a good thing from the dns perspective.  They 
> > > > reduce overall traffic to the zone.
> > >
> > >
> > > That's ridiculous.
> > >
> > > Who says reducing traffic to the zone is a good thing?
> >
> >
> >
> > Alt-roots must represent perfection by that standard, as they get zero
> > traffic. ;)
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > George Kirikos
> > http://www.kirikos.com/


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