On Aug 18, 2012, at 5:35, Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raym...@prolocation.net> wrote:
> Reverse DNS isnt the only issue here. There are many sites that give each > user a subdomain. And if i look at my top talkers on some busy resolvers i do > see that thats doing about 25-30% of the lookups currently. > > akamai.net, amazonaws.com and so on. All make nice use of DNS for this. > Those have litterly millions of entry's in DNS also. And thats what currently > is doing the load on resolvers... Akamai has no "users". So not really sure what you mean by that. There are a /lot/ of hostnames on *.akamai.net. That may have something to do with the 1000s of companies that use Akamai to deliver approximately 20% of all the traffic going down broadband modems. Which fits nicely in your DNS lookup percentage. -- TTFN, patrick
