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Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 ABSTRACT VeriSign's global network of nameservers for the .com and .net domains sees 500,000 DNS queries per second during its daily peak, and ten times that or more during attacks. By adding new servers and bandwidth, we've recently increased capacity to handle many times that query volume. Name and address changes are distributed to these nameservers every 15 seconds -- from a provisioning system that routinely receives one million domain updates in an hour. In this presentation we describe VeriSign's production DNS implementation as a context for discussing our approach to highly scalable, highly reliable architectures. We will talk about the underlying Advanced...