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[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Maestas <tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com> writes:

    Tim> Yes, we created brodcast.net, put an A record for www to
    Tim> 127.0.0.1 Once the app received an answer to it's query, the
    Tim> volume of queries decreased dramtically.  However, even with
    Tim> every machine with that broken app on it doing 2 queries per
    Tim> second or so (before we created the zone) we never had a
    Tim> problem with it crashing the name server.

This is hardly surprising. f.root-servers.net gets a sustained load of
around 2-3000 queries a second. That much traffic doesn't crash it.