On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, George Kirikos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> --- Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easyDNS.com> wrote:
> >
> > Its an easy problem to fix, all the registry has to do is release the
> > expires randomly over the course of the day rather than drop them all
> > at 6am and penalize the registrars who them lock up resources
> > attempting
> > to grab an expired name.
>
> Actually, if they released the names randomly over the course of the
> day, things would be worse. People would pound the registry 24 hours a
> day, instead of just 1 hour per day, trying to catch the name. There'd
> literally be a meltdown in that scenario.
>
An important aspect of my suggestion was the penalty method where
it costs you an interval of time when you attempt to snag a dropped
domain and that interval doubles everytime you attempt it.
If a registrar tried to issue 100,000 check commands they would find
themselves having to wait about 2^10*5 seconds to get another socket.
In other words, you make the hammering cost so much it becomes crippling
to the registrar doing it, while putting in moderate requests like
one per minute are easily absorbed and makes it a pretty random
distribution.
-mark
-- mark jeftovic http://www.easydns.com http://mark.jeftovic.net
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