cname quick question

[Roy Arends]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Danny Mayer wrote:

> At 02:01 PM 3/7/01, Cricket Liu wrote:
> 
> > > In regard to the question about CNAME at the top of the zone.
> >[...]
> >I could bring this up as a possible service the Registry could offer.
> >Are there any technical objections to it that I haven't thought of?
> >
> >cricket
>          Well, yes.  How does this change the load on the TLD servers? As the
> rate of addition of domains increases, the servers are always under load.
> So does this increase or decrease the load? Are there more records being
> added per domain or fewer?

Less records.

Lets say .com advertises

domain   CNAME example
example  NS    ns1.example
example  NS    ns2.example

This is 25 % less (in records, not specifically size) then

domain   NS    ns1.example
domain   NS    ns2.example
example  NS    ns1.example
example  NS    ns2.example

Don't know exactly about load/performance. But I guess load increase (=
performance decrease)



roy