Re: Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

cncr04s/Randy cncr04s at gmail.com
Thu May 31 16:11:38 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:39 AM,  <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012 08:14:40 -0500, "cncr04s/Randy" said:
>
>> 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.. 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.
>
> For $50/mo I can have a connection from Comcast.  That doesn't mean that
> I could run my own cable to the nearest major exchange for anywhere near
> $50.
>
> Also, what's the failover if your $9/mo CPU develops a bad RAM card?  Does
> your $9/mo CPU have sufficient geographic diversity to survive a backhoe?
> And about 4 zillion other things that people that actually have to run production
> services worry about...

My comment was directed at government spending... no need to have such
a angry tone about the "comment". I was only comparing to what I spend
on my large volumes of queries and what this so called expensive stuff
the government is running...     And I have never developed a bad ram
card, even if I did, replacements are easy as i'm talking about
distributed vps in this case.




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