On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:24:58PM -0700,
Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
a message of 52 lines which said:
> When we did our tests to see how big we could make the root zone
> before it went "boom" we began by simply elevating the then existing
> .com names to be root zone names - I think there were about
> 30,000,000 names in .com then.
>
> This was a few years back, but even then all we had to do was add a
> pile of memory to a decidedly non-studly, and definitely not
> expensive, PC.
[TLD operator hat on]
> Generally one can use load splitters to front-end DNS servers to spread
> the burden across many cheap machines
The DNS part of the registry is the easiest one. Many root name
servers run on regular PC. An ordinary out-of-the-box Dell server can
handle an huge DNS traffic and an huge zone file.