Assuming a half normal rate = 140 users Cut that by a third to get crappy service The lowest feasible connection is 1 T1 per 200 users. Assuming your a monopoly and can screw your students, er users, 1 T1 per thousand people, since you'll just say names V-Z can use the internet between 4 and 6am, etc.
Incidentally, 5 T1's cost more than 1 burstable T3 link.
Whoever wants to. You have your OWN "primary" DNS server. Whether its dns.slashdot.org, a local box of yoru own, or whatever. They resolve thier OWN specialty lookups. IF they don't have them, then you use your ISPs normal dns resolution.
For example. I set up my own version of freedns. Me, my friends and slashdot use it for a year. A year later, it has 100,000 entries. 50 bytes per entry is 5MB total for OUR DNS. The normal (luser's) DNs table is 100x that, or more. But "we" don't need to resolve microsoft.com or netscape.com. They'll be in the top level as they should be. Diffs, instead of DLing the whole thing, cuts that to about 1% a day, or a very manageable 50KB per site. 10 mirrors, with 10 mirrors each = 100 sites serving a 50k to 1,000 sites each. 50Mb is not much on a T1 at 1am, much less a T3 or god forbid, we actually get an OC link to join up.
Again, when etoy.com gets sued out of existance by etoys, WE resolve etoy.com to the right IP. We dont need to resolve etoys.com. ONLY when a site is improperly resolved/corporately hijacked do we need to resolve it.
Sites that we might want to always resolve could be whatever.free for instance. All our freedom loving non-domain squatting ilk can grab a domain like software.free And post thier DNS patches:)
No your freind the art history major wont be able to see software.free by typing it into netscape. But she will be able to see it by going to http://igiveaflyingfuck.freedomains.genericisp.com /whatsthisaboutfreedns.html
If yoru serious about getting rid of "official" "regulated" corporately controlled domain names, etc you can. Slashdot has enough technically oriented individuals to make it happen, as least as far as the individuals are concerned.
No you can't fix your workplace's DNS and your MS using co-workers name resolution (unless your in charge anyway). But you can set your DNS servers up the way YOU want them to resolve. You can subscribe to whatever top-level DNS server you want, including your pal Taco's.
If you want whitehouse.com to resolve to whitehouse.com the pron site (as opposed to whitehouse.gov the pornographers site;) you can. Ditto the inverse.
If your serious, willing to dedicate time, effort, server/badwidth use, let me know. One individual's DSL line isn't enough to do it all. HTTP mirrors will be needed.
Please though, only serious replies, not "Me too, brain dead AOLers" for the sake of my poor little yahoo mailbox (hint hint for people who dont know pig-latin).
Slashdot Mirror
T1=1.544Mbit=~175kbytes/sec
175/5k per user = 35 simultaneous users at
http/email speed (not frp/streaming etc
35 users * 50% active= 70 users
Assuming a half normal rate = 140 users
Cut that by a third to get crappy service The lowest feasible connection is 1 T1 per 200 users. Assuming your a monopoly and can screw your students, er users, 1 T1 per thousand people, since you'll just say names V-Z can use the internet between 4 and 6am, etc.
Incidentally, 5 T1's cost more than 1 burstable T3 link.
Whoever wants to. You have your OWN "primary" DNS server. Whether its dns.slashdot.org, a local box of yoru own, or whatever. They resolve thier OWN specialty lookups. IF they don't have them, then you use your ISPs normal dns resolution.
For example. I set up my own version of freedns. Me, my friends and slashdot use it for a year. A year later, it has 100,000 entries. 50 bytes per entry is 5MB total for OUR DNS. The normal (luser's) DNs table is 100x that, or more. But "we" don't need to resolve microsoft.com or netscape.com. They'll be in the top level as they should be. Diffs, instead of DLing the whole thing, cuts that to about 1% a day, or a very manageable 50KB per site. 10 mirrors, with 10 mirrors each = 100 sites serving a 50k to 1,000 sites each. 50Mb is not much on a T1 at 1am, much less a T3 or god forbid, we actually get an OC link to join up.
Again, when etoy.com gets sued out of existance by etoys, WE resolve etoy.com to the right IP. We dont need to resolve etoys.com. ONLY when a site is improperly resolved/corporately hijacked do we need to resolve it.
Sites that we might want to always resolve could be whatever.free for instance. All our freedom loving non-domain squatting ilk can grab a domain like software.free And post thier DNS patches :)
No your freind the art history major wont be able to see software.free by typing it into netscape. But she will be able to see it by going to http://igiveaflyingfuck.freedomains.genericisp.com /whatsthisaboutfreedns.html
Think about it.
If yoru serious about getting rid of "official" "regulated" corporately controlled domain names, etc you can. Slashdot has enough technically oriented individuals to make it happen, as least as far as the individuals are concerned.
No you can't fix your workplace's DNS and your MS using co-workers name resolution (unless your in charge anyway). But you can set your DNS servers up the way YOU want them to resolve. You can subscribe to whatever top-level DNS server you want, including your pal Taco's.
If you want whitehouse.com to resolve to whitehouse.com the pron site (as opposed to whitehouse.gov the pornographers site ;) you can. Ditto the inverse.
If your serious, willing to dedicate time, effort, server/badwidth use, let me know. One individual's DSL line isn't enough to do it all. HTTP mirrors will be needed.
Please though, only serious replies, not "Me too, brain dead AOLers" for the sake of my poor little yahoo mailbox (hint hint for people who dont know pig-latin).