Traffic on ROOT/GTLD-Servers

[Roy Arends]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Lordy wrote:

> As I know that some of you allmigthy ROOT/GTLD-Admins
> are reading this list I just wanted to ask how much traffic such
> a server is producing a month ?
> 
> Do you guys calculate in Gigs or do you already need Teras
> for that ?
> 
> I'm just curious...
> 
> Regards,
> Lordy

There is an interesting paper on root-servers traffic measurements from
Caida. 

DNS Measurements at a Root Server, Nemeth E., Claffy KC., Brownlee N.,
http://cider.caida.org/~evi/sigcomm/paper.html

Not so much the load is interesting in this paper, but the percentage of
bogus packets.

Regards,

Roy Arends
Nominum