Re: a new DNS root for the world?

["'Stephane Bortzmeyer'" <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:03:41PM -0700,
 Nick Staff <nick.staff at comcast.net> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

> The last time I had a reason keep a copy of the root file locally 
...
> I think .com alone weighed in at over 3 gigs

So what? We're talking about the root zone, not about ".com".

> I know you weren't serious, but at it's uncompressed size in 1999 it
> would be bandwidth cost efficient to send the root file to someone
> only if they were to perform approximately 6.3 million queries per
> version of root file

Are *you* serious? The root zone is 62459 bytes, uncompressed. This is
a few hundreds of typical DNS requests.

> (which would of course become outdated during transfer).

Again, you're not serious. The root zone is modified every two-three
days in average.


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