On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Peter Koch wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:35:29PM -0800, John Crain wrote:
> >
> > > Currently about 60% New IP to 40% old IP... and rising slowly
> > >
> > > So clearly a lot of folks still need to up date their hints files :(
> >
> > part of that traffic will be due to old hints files, but priming was
> > actually supposed to accelerate the migration. 40% of total L traffic
> > seems a bit much for 1/13 of the priming traffic?
>
> Why old root server IP addresses recieve so much traffic is a great
> mystery and has been for several years. We addressed this in 2004 in
> the "Life and Times of J-root" presentation for NANOG 32:
>
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0410/pdf/kosters.pdf
>
> Note that at the time, I fingerprinted the responsive queriers and
> many were late-model BIND, all of which are known to prime.
>
> As I write this, J root's old IP address is receiving 1000 queries per
> second and that's over five years after we changed its address.
> Perhaps this is some sort of DNS equivlanet to cosmic background
> radiation, dating back the beginning of the Internet?
>
> Matt
>
and perhaps more interesting, the old address for "B"
showed a tapering off of traffic and then an INCREASE
last year. Old L and J got their numbers less than a
decade ago. ... so i would not go back as far as the
begining of the Internet. Old B has been around for quite
a while longer.
--bill
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