Re: [ga] .et wildcarded

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. ;)
>  
I don't think you understand whats happeningin the big wide world.  
alt-roots do not get zero traffic.  Today there are 50 million people in 
china alone using the china MII root system.  Then we have the arabic 
domain consortium, i-dns, and of course the HEX experiment in europe I 
participated in.  These roots end up generating alot of error traffic to 
other roots.  Just look at what the error rate was at the root servers 
back in 2003.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/05/dud_queries_swamp_us_internet/

a good portoin of the error traffic was due to alt roots.  and back then 
they were a small footprint.  Today that traffic has increased 
exponetially at the root servers.  Which explain probably why we don't 
have any root analysis since I broke the story years ago.
regards
joe baptista

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