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Re: Work Work Work
From: Robert Elz <kre () munnari OZ AU>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 05:21:02 +1000
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:42:02 -0400 From: Scott Stansbury <scotts () franklin nysernet ORG> Message-ID: <199609091442.KAA20704 () franklin nysernet ORG> Unfortunately, this doesn't work now. Our name servers get tens of thousands of hits a day for a former root, c.nyser.net, a machine that hasn't existed for quite some time. There's absolutely nothing you can do about those, they're the result of old software with old configurations. Changing at the end nodes is the only thing that will ever fix that problem. Certainly changing the root nameserver addresses isn't going to make any difference (unless you can somehow guarantee that none of the old root addresses has any kind of nameserver sutting at it, that at least would motivate the old end sites a little). Given that the end nodes have to be updated to make things better, it seems that the best solution is to motivate them to upgrade the software (it isn't exactly a difficult task) so that the problem of changing root addresses (and lots of others) mostly goes away. Magic stable root addresses isn't likely to be much of a long term help, regardless of how well they can be propogated, or what kind of message it sends wrt address & routing table slot conservation. If anything, taht is likely to just encourage people to keep using nameserver code that should have been retired years ago. kre - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Work Work Work Scott Stansbury (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Robert Elz (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Allan Chong (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Bill Fenner (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Paul A Vixie (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Tim Bass (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Paul A Vixie (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Matthew Petach (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Allan Chong (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Mark Andrews (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Robert Elz (Sep 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Work Work Work Justin W. Newton (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Tim Bass (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work David Carmean (Sep 09)
- Re: Work Work Work Tim Bass (Sep 09)