-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Perry, On 5/21/10 4:24 AM, Perry Lorier wrote:
If you want to improve Internet performance in New Zealand through improving DNS infrastructure, try and get at least one GTLD server instance hosted within New Zealand. the time it takes to go to the US for the GTLD .COM/.NET/.EDU lookups is by far the easiest of those to solve.
My view of the WIX shows that Verisign actually does have the 'b' gTLD servers co-located with the Root server 'J" instance there. * 192.33.14.0 202.7.0.172 0 0 9439 23755 26415 i *> 202.7.0.172 0 0 9439 23755 26415 i * 192.58.128.0 202.7.0.172 0 0 9439 23755 26415 i *> 202.7.0.172 0 0 9439 23755 26415 i
Interestingly afilias's .org and .info infrastructure appears to have an instance within NZ (~5ms away), and the rest of their servers also seem to be fairly close.
.ORG Servers are present both on APE and WIX. They provide a different set of .ORG servers locally. 'b2.org.afilias-nst.org' and 'a2.org.afilias-nst.org' respectively. Routes are withdrawn from WIX at present, it seems. You may not see these servers due to 'peering' policy differences. None of the DNS anycast providers are likely to buy transit in NZ and only provide the services at the IX over peering sessions, which may not gel well with the 'policies' of the established carriers. - -gaurab - -- http://www.gaurab.org.np/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv5SAIACgkQSo7fU26F3X2jPgCfXZe7ckRmC0SQrr9wum7zyPKG epsAn1ldYpjx9hePFznLmphpmFAvE4Ly =VsA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----