Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

Thu May 31 15:38:33 UTC 2012

cncr04s/Randy wrote:
> Exactly how much can it cost to serve up those requests... I mean for
> 9$ a month I have a cpu that handles 2000 *Recursive* Queries a
> second. 900 bux could net me *200,000* a second if not more.
> The government overspends on a lot of things..

Looks like you just answered your own question:

> they need some one whos
> got the experience to use a bunch of cheap servers for the resolvers
> and a box that hosts the IPs used and then distributes the query
> packets.

I expect part of what the FBI is paying for is the time of people with 
that expertise.

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