Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:17:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, cross@math.psu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199512111517.PAA05545@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199512091904.OAA00238@hausdorff.math.psu.edu> from "Dan Cross" at Dec 9, 95 02:04:51 pm
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In reply to Dan Cross who said > > > Another point that I hadn't thought of that Dave Barr pointed out to me was > that a lot of counties don't use the standard convention for domain naming, > that is, in England that use *.co.uk instead of *.com.uk. Thus, it would turn > into a big mess with the country level authorities. Another thing that Dave > pointed out to me was that DNS traffic isn't really all that taxing, so the > benefits would be minimal. :-) Well, it's not that insignificant a load if the domain starts to have lots of machines in it and you're getting a lot of machines making requests. > Given that, I think that Jordan's original idea of splitting things up into > *.<country>.freebsd.org is preferable.... It would be nice to reduce > traffic overall (hey, every little bit helps) but it's just too complicated, > not to mention expensive. :-( Compared to the mail load and file retrieval though you're right and getting mirrors whatever they're called is a more important concern. It was just a thought but it looks like the UK is the only one with a .org.?? convention so it's probably not going to work. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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