On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 22:11:46 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But you also add lots of load to the root servers. DNS is designed to > be distributed so the servers are capable of handling the load. You > would use at least 2 queries for every dns lookup. (one to the root > server, one to the authoritative server) and often more. Your ISPs This isn't true. You caching name server is going to keep track of intermediate answers from name servers. You normally won't be querying the root servers more than a couple of times a day (once for each different tld you need to ask about each day, that isn't already cached). For typical people, they will hit the gtld servers about once for each unique sld that they need to lookup.
