Comment Everyone has good points above here, just one more (Score 1) 145
Have you ever considered acquiring some facts before making up some opinions ?
One *root* name server in particular ( ie, authoritative for . ) is a P133, not overly loaded and serves in excess of 1 million requests per hour. This is not a machine I would class as "the fastest thing you can get"
Also, a root name server wouldn't be queried for the 'printer.robshouse' part of the domain, and, depending on which root server you hit, might not be asked to resolve the 'slashdot'
As a point of internet, 95% of the queries to the DNS server mentioned above are Windows machines trying to resolve 'DOMAIN', 'WORKGROUP' and such like...
One *root* name server in particular ( ie, authoritative for . ) is a P133, not overly loaded and serves in excess of 1 million requests per hour. This is not a machine I would class as "the fastest thing you can get"
Also, a root name server wouldn't be queried for the 'printer.robshouse' part of the domain, and, depending on which root server you hit, might not be asked to resolve the 'slashdot'
As a point of internet, 95% of the queries to the DNS server mentioned above are Windows machines trying to resolve 'DOMAIN', 'WORKGROUP' and such like...
