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The roots are a "common good" and yes they're designed to handle this level of traffic because they have to. I also agree application developers don't have to b
by TrueDuality 4y ago
The roots are a "common good" and yes they're designed to handle this level of traffic because they have to. I also agree application developers don't have to be generally restrained in their use of DNS when using the protocol for its intended purposes.
Attempting to look up domains with the intention that they don't exist and are expecting the general case to be a failed query is not using the DNS system as intended. As I mentioned this could be solved by the application including a domain they control so they are not excessively consuming a public good at the expense of others (someone does have to pay for these servers).
The roots should not be expected to double their capacity because one application implements a feature in bad faith.
- tptacek 4y agoThe roots aren't "doubling their capacity". They're not doing anything resembling doubling their capacity. The only thing that "doubled" is a line on a graph. If your conception of the root servers is that they're generally redlining and we're just scraping by with the capacity we need for current load: no. If we don't have a shared understanding of the facts here, we can't have a productive discussion about this topic.