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(an anylysis of) traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System “root” servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server spends the majority of its time dealing with unnecessary queries.
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98 percent of the queries it received during 24 hours were unnecessary. The researchers believe that the other 12 DNS root servers likely receive similarly large amounts of bad requests.
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Researchers believe that many bad requests occur because organizations have misconfigured packet filters and firewalls
given what just happened Saturday does this research have any increased importance?
In a word, Yes.
This was an analysis (not research) conducted by scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) who bring their own validity to the table.
Pendanticist.
increased qualification to make such a statement?
I was addressing your term research and it's usage when the article was only an analysis and yes, these people would seem to have their finger on the pulse of things so-to-speak and one would have to assume they know a bit more than you or I. So, in this case they do have inherent validity.
Are they biased? Sure they are.
If the article was written by a desktop calendar maker in Smallville USA who uses manual print presses, has no phone and does not own a computer - I'd brush it off as irrelevant folly, but those folks do bring a certain amount of validity to the table.
Pendanticist.
