Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?

Wed Feb 19 07:24:22 UTC 1997

On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > Thats fair, I guess.  Perhaps some of those $100 in fees for unused
> > domains could be used to buy more RAM for root server operators.
> 
> This has in fact been done.  NSI sent me a replacement for F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET:
> 
> MESSAGE                                 Alpha boot: available memory from 
>                                          _0xe46000 to 0x1fffe000 
>                                         Digital UNIX V4.0B  (Rev. 564); Mon 
>                                          _Dec 23 14:52:07 PST 1996  
>                                         physical memory = 512.00 megabytes. 
>                                         available memory = 497.74 megabytes. 
>                                         using 1958 buffers containing 15.29 
>                                          _megabytes of memory 
>                                         AlphaStation 255/300 system 
>                                         DECchip 21071  

Hey, that's great.

So are you seeing performance problems from all the bloat that they
are allowing to creep into the tables?
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