Re:The uncertainty of measuring the DNS
by kqr on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:19AM
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DNS sounds so simple when described as "servers in a hierarchy that tell you either what other server to ask, or which host has a particular hostname".
My perspective shift was when I talked to someone who worked at NetNod with operating i.root-servers.net: he spoke about DNS the way people speak about distributed key–value stores. Except this was invented over 30 years ago. And services nearly the entire internet. I don't remember how long he'd been working with it, but he absolutely could not wrap his head around the fact that it still works. That it hasn't broken down entirely was apparently something he saw as a little miracle.
Facetiously, I have started thinking of DNS as the only truly web scale NoSQL.
My perspective shift was when I talked to someone who worked at NetNod with operating i.root-servers.net: he spoke about DNS the way people speak about distributed key–value stores. Except this was invented over 30 years ago. And services nearly the entire internet. I don't remember how long he'd been working with it, but he absolutely could not wrap his head around the fact that it still works. That it hasn't broken down entirely was apparently something he saw as a little miracle.
Facetiously, I have started thinking of DNS as the only truly web scale NoSQL.