'MySpace effect' can take a toll on nets

摘要

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.rnThe 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 networks soon, as these network-intensive interactive features migrate from specialty sites to mainstream e-commerce operations and intranets.