On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wasn't it them doing yet another stupid Verisign trick? (Redirect enquiries that should return no results to some second-guess what you might have wanted.)
They market that as a feature :) But they are upfront about it on the website, and they do mention that it is their only revenue stream.
Remember that a lot of look-ups are going to be to do with web browsing, where (for DNS that is working well) the tiny amounts of time involved in resolving an address is nothing compared to the general lethargicness of web browsers rendering pages.
That's true. Have you seen the KillerNIC? (OT)
> Looks like it can be made about half it's own size if white space is removed. Much of that is tabs, not spaces, so it's smaller than it looks. I think we're past the days of 4 meg 386 boxes, where you needed to be concerned about whether a file was using 5 or 10k of space.
I'm frugal :)
Just looking through my /var/named/ directory, where such files are kept, the main one's 1.6kB, there's a few around 198 Bytes, and my one filled with domains to get no answers for (doubleclick, etc.) is only 186 Bytes.
Want to share that one with me? Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_a_cellphone.html http://lishon.com
