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Re: Question about strain on the A root server
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc () iMach com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:18:22 -0600 (MDT)
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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