NSI policy on lame delagations

Thu Nov 26 08:19:04 UTC 1998

Stephen Stuart wrote:
> 
> > Ok; I'm there... but it seems to me that disk caching, possibly
> > application tuned, and 3/4 of a shitload of ram should solve that
> > problem.  If you really need to serve that much DNS, you can
> > _afford_ a 4GB Ram Alphaserver, no?
> 
> Jerry Scharf once walked me through the math on .com with DNSSEC.
> 
> 4 GB ... heh, heh, heh. :-)

Or you can do a 50-line hack in a unix kernel and do it with
a dozen cheapo PCs.  Details are left as an excercise to the
reader.  Hint: hashing is a well-known but often overlooked trick.

--vadim