Re: root name servers

[Mark Kosters <markk () internic net>]

Erik Sherk and I have arranged for internic to be one hop off of suranet's
router on mae-east. Additionally, expect to see some changes in the root 
servers configuration on namedroppers as soon as I can dig out of my large 
amount of mail that I recently have received...

Mark
> > the root servers are not currently suffering from load (my own server does
> > about 100 queries per second, which is about 10% of the capacity of my little
> > 66Mhz/64MB BSD/OS machine).  the goal here is to reduce load on the wide area
> > net rather than on the root servers themselves.  and also to increase the
> > likelihood that any given host can reach a root server during times of wide-
> > scale connectivity problems (which seem to be more common lately?)
>
> > From a pretty central place in the Internet;
>
>   1 icm-dc-1-H1/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.10) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   2 icm-dc-2b-F2/0.icp.net (198.67.131.34) 40 msec 8 msec 88 msec
>   3 icm-fix-e-H2/0-T3.icp.net (192.157.65.122) 20 msec 0 msec 0 msec
>   4 sura9-fix-cf.sura.net (192.203.229.9) 56 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   5 cpk9-cpk-cf.sura.net (128.167.252.9) [AS 86] 0 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   6 wtn8-cpk9-c3.sura.net (128.167.212.2) [AS 86] 8 msec 4 msec 4 msec
>   7 wtn4-wtn8-ce.sura.net (128.167.24.4) [AS 86] 12 msec 12 msec 4 msec
>   8 netsol-wtn4-c1.sura.net (192.221.22.2) [AS 86] 16 msec 4 msec 8 msec
>   9 NS.INTERNIC.NET (198.41.0.4) [AS 86] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec