How Social Networking Sites Are Hurting Your Network and DNS Servers

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How Social Networking Sites Are Hurting Your Network and DNS Servers

06-25-2007, 10:02 AM,

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How Social Networking Sites Are Hurting Your Network and DNS Servers

Quote:Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. Moreover, the "MySpace Effect" is expected to hit many more nets soon, as these network-intensive interactive features migrate from specialty sites to mainstream e-commerce operations and intranets...

The demanding nature of social-networking sites was highlighted in May when the Department of Defense announced it was blocking worldwide access to 13 Web sites, including MySpace and YouTube...

full article: http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=5546&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=114

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