That MIT paper
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Fri Aug 13 04:39:54 UTC 2004
> i must have misspoken. when i asked "what if 20,000 sites decreased their
> cache utilization by 1% due to a general lowering of TTL's inspired by
> MIT's paper" i was wondering if anyone thought that the result would be a
> straight across-the-board increase in traffic at the root servers. there
> are theories that say yes. other theories say it'll be higher. others,
> lower. any study that fails to address these questions is worse than
> useless.
no. it may happen to be studying things other than the root servers.
and that's ok and often useful
randy
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