Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 micro allocation or something else?

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:53:04AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > DENIC is providing a public service (namely: DNS for the .de TLD) - and
> > *the whole world* wants to reach their DNS servers.    (No different
> > to .com and other large TLDs)
> 
> or anywhere else in the dns tree, tends of thousands of servers

Yes.  I think we can agree that there are lots of domain service
providers that have 2, 3, maybe 5 name servers in their NS set (and those
can grow without anycasting), and that there are some that really use 
up all that you can fit in those small packets, and want to provide 
even *more* resiliency.  Looking at DNS, I see "lots of nameservers"
primarily for root, and some gTLD/ccTLD zones.  Haven't seen that for
"further down" stuff (.co.uk is "sort of ccTLD" stuff).

And really - I don't care who they are and what they do, but if they
think it's a good thing to have more than 11 different primary name
servers for whatever they are hosting, it must be important to them,
and at leat to whoever is providing the funding.

> but i am sure denic is very important

The second largest DNS zone in the world *does* sound somewhat important 
to me.  I don't have query numbers to compare .com and .de requests/second
(which would be more useful than sheer zone size), but I'd assume that
there are also plenty of request for .de domains.

Gert Doering
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