Gsus4@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours agoCloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GBwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down12
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkCloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GBwww.tomshardware.comGsus4@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squarestoicmaverick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoI never even thought about this before, but what kind of hardware is a root level DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or quad 8 run on? Are they all roughly the same, or do they take different approaches to the load?
I never even thought about this before, but what kind of hardware is a root level DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or quad 8 run on? Are they all roughly the same, or do they take different approaches to the load?