RE: root name servers

[Kamau Wanguhu <kamau () crl dec com>]

How about the other ones from L-M  where are they "physically" located?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Howard [mailto:phil () whistler intur net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 09:34
> To: jra () scfn thpl lib fl us
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: root name servers
>
>
> Jay R. Ashworth writes...
>
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:29:43AM -0800, 
> bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> > > > anybody knows the physical location
> > > > of all root name servers, or a pointer ?
> > > Is it really important?
> >
> > The sort of person who wants to know this is roughly the 
> same sort of
> > person who is interested in knowing that the AT&T Startum 1 
> clock is in
> > Hillsboro MO.
> >
> > You know: geeks.  :-)
>
> OTOH, some of us don't care about those root servers because 
> we already
> know where our own root servers are.  All but one of my DNS 
> servers are
> grass roots servers.  You can take down all the root servers, 
> and if that
> didn't also take out the TLD (e.g. .COM, .NET, .ORG, .GOV) 
> servers, then
> I won't notice it much (except to wonder why there is a dropoff in my
> load on smtp and http).
>
> BTW, knowing where the main root servers are topologically is probably
> more dangerous than knowing where they all are physically.  
> And that is
> information most everyone already has.
>
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