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Re: Question about strain on the A root server
- From: Forrest W. Christian
- Date: Sat Apr 22 20:25:05 2000
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Nick Patience wrote:
> NSI seems slightly unsure as to the main reason for the increase in hits,
> but speculates that one of the reasons may be
> says the main reason for this is that ISP's are using different caching
> techniques and more & more searches are going right to the top of the tree
> than before.
I have heard from a source that Windows 2000 is sending a whole bunch of
"interesting" packets towards the root servers. I don't know if this is
true or not, but if it is, this seems to coincide timing wise. The
person I talked to referred to the packets as "update notifications" or
something like that. Maybe NOTIFY implemented weirdly?
- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ
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