Re: Who owns the Root Name Servers

[Karl Auerbach <karl at CaveBear.com>]

Just another data point --

Many people don't realize how little traffic hits the roots from a
reasonable local name server that doesn't reboot very often.

For example, my server for CaveBear (which also serves as the server for a
few other reasonably network-active organizations) uses a somewhat recent
version of bind on Solaris 2.5.1.

It generated only about 180 queries to "the root" over a period of a
couple of weeks.  And now that the cache is loaded, the root query rate is
quite low.

On the other hand, the query rate to the TLD servers (including the
oft-forgotten .arpa for reverse lookups) is several orders of magnitude
greater. 

By-the-way, it might be interesting to rephrase your question about "Who
owns the Root Name Servers" as "Who owns the data in the Root Name
Servers?".

		--karl--