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Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
From: Michael Shields <shields () msrl com>
Date: 21 Sep 2000 15:04:12 +0000
In article <20000920224220.E2038 () gblx net>, Austin Schutz <tex () off org> wrote:
Do you have statistics to back up the 'three most widely-used TLDs' statement? According to www.netsizer.com, org isn't even in the top ten. I'm not sure upon what they base their data, but I was unable to find evidence to the contrary.
They seem to be measuring number of hosts named under the zone, as measured by a recursive query. I think the best way to tell which TLD servers are most widely used would be to monitor the query traffic to the root nameservers; most operators will agree that the most actively trafficed domains are the most important to maintain reachability to. BIND's selection algorithm will bias this however, so you would need to take a sample across several or all. (Actually, this would be an interesting way to study the effects of BIND's selection algorithm and see if it's doing the right thing.) -- Shields.
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- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net John Fraizer (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Roland Dobbins (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Randy Bush (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Roland Dobbins (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Michael Shields (Sep 21)
- Re[2]: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net William Waites (Sep 21)
- Re: Re[2]: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net William F. Maton (Sep 21)
- Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Geoffrey Zinderdine (Sep 21)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net John Fraizer (Sep 21)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Michael Shields (Sep 21)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Randy Bush (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Greg A. Woods (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Randy Bush (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Nathan Lane (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Steve Sobol (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Thomas Marshall Eubanks (Sep 20)
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- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Rodney Joffe (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Greg A. Woods (Sep 19)