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In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss the behaviour of the DNS system when you have to come up from nothing: the “cold start” where no data exists from prior queries in your “cache”. This stems from a talk given by Ondřej Surý, that Geoff saw at the recent RIPE-92 Meeting held in Edinburgh, in the DNS working group.
Cache, is the things you hold on to, from prior work done. It’s a fundamental technique in computer science to avoid the massive disparity in speed between parts of the systems, keeping things you use a lot in “fast” memory close to the CPU…
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