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To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From: "Cricket Liu" <cricket@acmebw.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:41:11 -0700
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: statistics for record types

> Anybody know of any stats on the percentages of resource records used in
> queries? My guess would be that A and PTR records make up the bulk,
> followed by NS then MX, and stuff like TXT, HINFO, etc being tiny.

Actually, I'd expect more MX queries than NS queries.  Name servers don't
send explicit NS queries that often (except in system queries), though they
often get responses that include NS records.

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