We are talking 15k qps. A single AMD machine should be able to much higher rates - millions. Yes, there is overhead, but my point was, if verisign or whoever is

We are talking 15k qps. A single AMD machine should be able to much higher rates - millions. Yes, there is overhead, but my point was, if verisign or whoever is in charge can't run these root servers to handle 15k qps for the entire global internet then let google do it. These are ridiculously low numbers, and dns is EASIER not harder than video. Google is doing full live streaming, multi res / format delivery with chat across a ton of platforms. And no - root DNS does not change at a high rate of speed. It's a 2MB file you can download yourself. .com stays .com for a LONG time and the TTLs are going to be in hours and days.