Re:So what? (Score 1)

Why was this article modded up so much? Jordy doesn't seem to have read the original article, or understood the issues behind it.

If the root servers are having trouble handling ... they should be upgraded

The article explicitly says this is not the case.

To improve on this, BIND could up the maximum negative RR cache default time to live.

If you'd read the analysis you'd know this is completely beside the point. It doesn't explain the single host that was asking for the same non-existent TLD 20 times per second. Also you'll note that the busiest hosts appear to be running Windows: 7.5% of all traffic is attributable to a bug in w2k (for which a patch has been released but evidently not applied).

The few hundred abusers aren't going to be affected by changes in BIND.