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98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary
LEPP writes "Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Centerfound that 98% of the DNS queries at the root level are unnecessary. This doesn't even take into account the 99.9% of web pages suck or are unnecessary anyways. This means that the remaining 2% of necessary DNS queries are probably not necessary either."
is it that hard to configure a firewall to explicitly allow outgoing traffic rather than allow all? It seems that everyone thinks that the only bad traffic is the stuff coming in from the outside...
This doesn't even take into account the 99.9% of web pages suck or are unnecessary anyways.
What standard is this based on? My website wite sucks and is only necessary for my own amusement but it is similar to my favorite kind of sites on the web. I would use the web a lot less if it wasn't for those 99.9% of web sites. Most blogs, for instance, suck and are unnecessary but at the same time the total of all the blogs is having a big impact on news outlets and the media.
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
I see this kind of thing all the time on /.--completely unedited, barely literate, rant-style submissions. Why don't the /. editors tone down or eliminate the rhetoric from submissions about otherwise worthy topics, or at least fix the grammar and typos?
I know, I'm going to get blasted for saying this, but I'm convinced it's one of those "little things" that makes /. look to the rest of the world more like a bunch of know-nothing kids typing at each other than a group of technically literate activists with something of value to contribute.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled rant...
The fact that DNS, a 20 year old design, still works after being scaled several magnitudes beyond its original environment is proof that DNS doesn't need to be redesigned. The initial design is nothing short of genius. The extensions to the initial design (dynamic updates) build upon already solid technology.
I run a DNS server, I've looked at DNS packets, and every time I ask the Internet to tell me who the heck slashdot.org is and it comes back with an IP address I'm amazed. My network asks strangers for help and those strangers say: Hey, try here. Bam! Slashdot.org pops up in my browser.
You cannot "combine" DNS, DHCP, and Routing all into a single protocol. Hell, get three network engineers together sometime and try to get them to agree upon the best Internal Gateway Routing protocol sometime... EIGRP, OSPF, RIP.
Routing information is extremely different from domain name information. The two have nothing in common other than IP Addresses. You have to include not only information about who your neighbors are, but also what type of links are between you and your neighbors, and how congested those links are. Now, what about your neighbor's neighbors? Oh, we'll track that to, and also keep a set of tables that show us the next two best reconfigurations should any of the links stop working. Unless you're just talking about RIP for routing.
DHCP on the other hand is about getting clients configured for a network. They can then use DDNS to update their DNS record in a local DNS server. DHCP can do much more than just say: Here's your IP. It can also tell a client: here's where you should get your operating system from, and here's the voice over IP gateway, and here's the server where you should send your management info to, and here's the best local printer to use. Most people don't have clients that can handle that type of information, however.
It's not just "if it's not broke, don't fix it" this is a case of "it frelling works great, keep your hands off of it or I'll kick you in the jimmy."
This is probably a cyclic argument.
As an ISP, why not respect a TTL? Because many DNS zones set their TTL values too small (5 mins), when 24 hours, would accomplish the same thing (except in rare circumstances -- if you're planning on moving, set it low a week before, do the move, reset to high ttl).
As a DNS administrator, it's a pain to keep changing your TTL and the ISPs don't respect it anyway.
It's useless to have a low TTL because the ISPs generally don't respect it because it's generally set too low because the ISPs don't generally respect it because....
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