How big is the DNS database being stored at the 13 root servers?

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Thu Apr 14 14:55:23 UTC 2005


On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:36:23PM -0700,
 Charles Cala <charles_cala at yahoo.com> wrote 
 a message of 98 lines which said:

> it MUST be small because it is hit so often.

No. BIND's response time does not depend a lot on the size of the
database. (And, with other name servers, the response time does not
depend at all on the size of the database.)

It is small because ICANN artificially constrains the number of TLD.



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