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The Revolution Arrives from Spain
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But how is this new? That's always been true, hasn't it?
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by michael
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It's new because it runs on a far smaller machine than is normal for a root server. They are talking about running a root server on a 1.2Ghz Athlon with 1.5GB of RAM. Up until they dropped the hardware config from their site, ISC's "F" root server used to be run by two AlphaServers, each with 4 500mhz CPUs and 8Gig of RAM (website now says it's up to 4 machines, but doesn't specify what hardware).
If you look at the comparison page for the RS-DNS server though, it looks to me like they've simply done away with the BIND text-based zone files and implemented their own (probably) binary zone files.
Text is nice for us to look at, but it's slow for a machine to parse and takes up far more room. For example, an IP address string of "192.168.12.32" is 13 bytes long, and for a machine to read, has to be carefully parsed for dots, numbers, and to ensure the numbers are in the correct range. If you didn't mind it not being human-readable, you could easily compress it to 4...less than half the size, 1 byte for each number. It'd also have the bonus of doing away with the parsing and checking, as a byte has a max range of 255.
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| - Re:Explain
by Muhhk
Thursday January 09 2003, @01:24AM
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by askii
Friday January 10 2003, @08:24PM
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by Anonymous
Sunday January 12 2003, @01:13AM
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