FYI - the Auckland node of F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has been offline for the past couple of years due to HW failure, access issues @SkyTower, changes with our hosts (contacts and access to said data center). I am happy to report that the node is finally back online and advertising F's prefixes to the APE fabric as I type... So come and send your DNS root server queries locally instead of sending them off-shore. We are AS23710 @APE, so if you don't peer with us already, pop us a note at peering(a)isc.org. Yes, Telecom NZ, I am looking at you. Yes, you... (a guy can dream, even if it is hopeless) ;) There are many folks to thank as ISC could not do it alone including: - NZRS (Jay, Sebastian and Dave) for sponsoring the new server gear. - APNIC for sponsoring the new routers. (sorry to see the old Juniper kit go though) - Sebastian and Mike Jager for dealing with my numerous remote hands requests from the other side of the world. - The Kiwi Internet Mafia (Joe Abley, AJ, Jonny) for their support and access to their contacts to keep things moving. - Vodafone NZ and FX Networks for (now redundant) transit over IPv4 and IPv6. - Our peers at APE that have put up with us for being down so long... :) O.k., commercial over; back to serving packets again. Best Wishes - Peter -- [ plosher(a)isc.org | Senior Operations Architect | ISC | PGP E8048D08 ]