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Re: That MIT paper


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:39:54 -0700


i must have misspoken.  when i asked "what if 20,000 sites decreased their
cache utilization by 1% due to a general lowering of TTL's inspired by
MIT's paper" i was wondering if anyone thought that the result would be a
straight across-the-board increase in traffic at the root servers.  there
are theories that say yes.  other theories say it'll be higher.  others,
lower.  any study that fails to address these questions is worse than
useless.

no.  it may happen to be studying things other than the root servers.
and that's ok and often useful

randy


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