Re: Follow-up to "ROOT SERVERS"

["Derek J. Balling" <dredd () megacity org>]

At 12:15 PM -0700 8/25/00, Sean Donelan wrote:

> How many queries do those four servers normally handle?

Using the most basic of logic (slightly flawed admittedly)...

r = number of daily root-server .com requests
t = total number of root-servers
b = 4 (number of bad root servers)

(b/t)*r

Now, since I'm suspecting that "r" is a sufficiently high value, I 
would say it would not be "negligible".

If it was "negligible" and "users would not notice", then it wouldn't 
have been reported to NSI, as we are all end-users of their system, 
and we noticed. :)

>   But a press release should keep close to what happened.

... and not an outright lie? ;-)   Sounds like NSI is starting to 
take some pointers from the Microsoft School of Press Releases.... ;-)

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