[ale] Router DNS Tables - off topic

[Lathe]

I know this is somewhat off topic for a Linux group, but I am curious
about the dynamics of routers.

A friend and I got into a discussion on the allocations of IPv4
addressing as opposed to the IPv6 addresses and something odd came up.
It was explained to me that an existing problem that the internet has is
that the a lot of the major routers that are in use are running out of
memory in their DNS tables.  Once these table are full, the routers then
do a complete memory flush and therein lies the problem.  Once that
happens, the routers will no longer be able to forward datagrams to
address blocks.

I'm not as familiar with routers as I'd like to be.  But this doesn't
quite sound right to me.  I was curious if anyone could possibly explain
the dynamics of the memory tables to me.  Or, if this system IS correct,
could someone tell me so.

Thanks in advance,

Scott Warfield


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