“Thanks to new directory software, Windows Vista could put a greater load on Internet servers,” Joris Evers reports for CNET News.
“Microsoft’s launch of Windows Vista could slow down or stall traffic on the Net, said Paul Mockapetris, who is widely credited with inventing the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). Mockapetris believes Vista’s introduction will cause a surge in DNS traffic because the operating system supports two versions of the Internet Protocol, a technology standard used to send information over computer networks,” Evers reports. “‘If you adopt Vista, your DNS traffic is going to double,’ Mockapetris said in an interview. With many DNS servers already running close to capacity, this can have serious consequences, he said. ‘You’re going to see brownouts. All of a sudden, it is going to be mud season on the Internet, where things will just be kind of slow and gooey.'”
Evers reports, “DNS is crucial to the Internet. It functions as a phone book, mapping text-based addresses such as http://www.cnet.com to the actual numeric IP address. DNS servers are typically run by Internet service providers, hosting companies and larger businesses that have Net connectivity.”
“The DNS system is relatively complex. Vista, in fact, won’t query twice every time it sends out a DNS request, Microsoft said. There will be some more traffic, but the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker does not expect Vista machines will impact the overall functionality of the Internet, the company said,” Evers reports.
Full article, in which experts disagree over whether the ‘Net could headed for a prime-time traffic jam or insignificant slowdown due to Windows Vista, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Barry” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: GIGO.
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hopefully it won’t happen because people won’t adopt it in large numbers.
Vista? They should’ve named it FUBAR.
I think we should start NOW putting together petitions to ban computers running Microsoft Windoze Vista from our ISP’s networks. Filter ’em out before they bring us all down!
GIGO, as opposed to GIGLI – Garbage In Garbage Left Inside. That’s as twisted as you want it to be.
‘Slow and gooey’
I was that way in high school. Fast and dry is much better.
What’s ‘GIGO’? (MDN take)
Ahhh – just twigged (duh!)
‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’
Is it any surprise that the next Microsoft OS has the capability to destroy Internet life as we know it??? They’ve been allowing people for years to poison it with spam, virus, and adware traffic. Why not just blow up the whole thing so that their machines/OS can’t be affected any longer!
I’ll take smooth and moist any day…
Microsoft Fails4Sure “New internet breaking version!!”
Let’s see, who to believe?
The DNS registry inventor, or MS.
“but the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker does not expect Vista machines will impact the overall functionality of the Internet, the company said,”
Let me alter that sentence.
“but the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker does not expect Vista machines will be used anytime befor 2010, the company said,”
besides, if new harware is required, won’t significant #’s of people avoid?
I’m still waiting for a large corporation, the government, or even an individual to sue Mafia$oft for their defective software.
“Unsafe at any speed – Winblows”
Mr. Reeee: Smooth, slow and moist can be good too. Except if it’s sandpaper. Fast, sticky and rough works also. Especially in a dark theater.
Goo In Goo Out
A Microsoft exec leaves, complaints continue to mount with Vista. And Apple introduces some sweet iMacs……Life is good.
Oh, there will be Millions of mindless lemmings slurping up the Vista crap.
The Internet is already bogged down by million of terrabite traffic genearted by zombied Windows computer, scanning IP numbers for crooks and billions of spam emails generated from same.
thanks… Bill Gates of Hell
You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
(What else would you expect from Monkey Boy Ballmer?)