Search Again: Re: curiouser and curiouser From: Chris Buxton Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 Time: 3:30:00 am >On Mon, Apr 19, 1999, 8:47:20 am GMT Chris Buxton wrote: > > >>(*never* use a.root-servers.net) > >Please, why should we not do that? The A server is the primary. All the other servers mirror off it. If/when it goes down, bad things happen. Furthermore, a great many automated programs have been written to make use of this server. Also, many name resolvers query the first name server of a list, while many others are written to query the "nearest" server (in terms of hops to the server). For many of us in the US, the A server is nearest. All this results in a great deal of traffic on the A server, which puts stress on its network stack. All in all, the A server gets hammered, all the time. The more traffic offloaded to the other root servers, the better. ________________________________ Chris Buxton Internet and Database Consultant

Messages In This Thread: Re: curiouser and curiouser by Donovan Watts on Apr 18, 1999 at 2:16:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Chris Buxton on Apr 19, 1999 at 8:47:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Mark Palmer, Pageworks on Apr 19, 1999 at 9:48:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Chris Buxton on Apr 20, 1999 at 3:30:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Mike on Apr 20, 1999 at 4:07:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Mark Palmer, Pageworks on Apr 20, 1999 at 8:32:00 am Re: curiouser and curiouser by Sigfus Magnusson on Apr 20, 1999 at 1:48:00 pm