[discuss] rootservers

Mon Feb 24 14:28:23 UTC 2014

No, it is reasonably accurate, whatever your doubts. :)

--c.a.

On 02/24/2014 11:31 AM, McTim wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> Is it accurate?
>
> I lived in UG for many years, and AFAIK, the IXP is still working on
> getting an instance running there, it may have happened already, but I
> doubt there are 5 as the list suggests.
>
> I'm still on a variety of UG techie lists, no one has ever mentioned
> running an ORSN server there.
>
> just sayin,
>
> McTim
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
>> Fine, David, but her list of you-name-it-[anycast]-servers by country is
>> reasonably accurate. :) BTW, it is a text list which is hard to build from
>> the root-servers.org site.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>>
>> On 02/24/2014 07:42 AM, David Conrad wrote:
>>
>>> Elisabeth,
>>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Elisabeth Blanconil <info at vgnic.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here is the distribution of the 365 top zone name servers (root servers)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I suspect creating a new term for the root name servers is unlikely to be
>>> helpful to anyone.
>>>
>>>   made available by the two VGNICs I know of (ICANN/IANA and ORSN).
>>>>
>>>
>>> What's a "VGNIC"?  I presume it is not the Network Information Center for
>>> the British Virgin Island (a la JPNIC, CNNIC, KRNIC, TWNIC, etc).
>>>
>>>   They are broken down per countries as follows:
>>>>
>>>
>>> A graphical representation of root name server instance distribution can
>>> be found at:
>>>
>>> http://www.root-servers.org
>>>
>>> (Note that the location of the "B" root name server instance is not in
>>> the South Atlantic just off the coast of western Africa (Lat: 0, Lon: 0),
>>> but in Los Angeles, US).
>>>
>>> It might also be useful to observe that a common technique at larger ISPs
>>> and other resolver operators is to mirror the root zone into their
>>> resolvers, thereby removing the need of those resolvers to actually query
>>> the root servers.  As such, those resolvers could be considered to be a
>>> form of root name servers as well. Of course, it is a bit challenging to
>>> identify which resolvers actually do this mirroring...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -drc
>>>
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