RE: [ga] Re: Root server traffic
Joe Baptista wrote: > No it does not. The article mainly shows a trend away from the IANA > root servers. > > So are you going to call up CAIDA and inform yourself? Get a copy of > that report? Or are you just making chit chat. What the article says is: According to KC Claffy, a resident research scientist at CAIDA, traffic originating from the inclusive namespace system is "likely part" of the results. But Wessels, the project leader, emphasized "there was not much evidence of alternative (inclusive namespace) TLDs" in the data collected. Hardly a consensus. And anyway, if I type www.foo.comm, or somebody@xxxxxxxx, it is most probably a mistype from my part (hardly a rare occurrence, I have to admit), not the proof that I wanted to reach some .comm TLD in some private root. And even if that was my intention, it still remains a plain error from my part, considering that I have sent the query to the standard root system, and not to some alternate root. So, to my reading, the only thing that the article, and the underlying CAIDA research, shows, is that there is a lot of garbage going around. Not really a surprise. If we return for a moment to the original subject of the thread, which is the use of a wildcard, a broken query is what it is, a broken query, that deserves a reply that clearly indicates that it is broken (so at least the sender can fix it). The use of a wildcard will only make believe that the query is not broken, and this will not at all reduce the broken queries traffic, quite the contrary, because the sender, not being aware that the query is broken, but still not getting the result he/she wants, will continue to send broken queries. In simple words, to hide the garbage under the carpet does not make the house cleaner, quite the contrary, it makes the cleaning more difficult. Cheers, Roberto <<attachment: winmail.dat>>
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