Re: Who cut off the piece of string?

[when I sent this from jabley(a)isc.org it didn't show up; maybe nznog became subscriber-only without me noticing] On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:28:06PM +1300, Don Stokes wrote:

Simon Lyall wrote:

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On a related note I see APNIC and the ISC are talking about mirroring The f.root-servers.net in APNIC area, anyone know if we might get one in NZ?

Unlikely. We don't generate enough traffic. Oceania as a whole accounts for a significant proportion of US West Coast root server traffic, and of that a pretty big proportion (more than 80%) comes from Australia. So the logical place to put it is somewhere in Aus. Even that will give a performance boost to root queries from within NZ, as the RTT to Aus (assuming half-decent trans-tasman routing) is less than a third of that to the US. (Damn, 'c' is a small number.)

The plan is to deploy lots of F root clusters in lots of different places. The fact that NZ currently presents a small proportion of the load served by the current F cluster does not mean there aren't good reasons to host an anycast F root in New Zealand (as well as elsewhere in the region). There is a solid operational justification for locating an anycast F root in NZ, which is to allow name resolution under NZ to continue in the event that some or all of the large providers in NZ lose international transit (e.g. a double-point failure on southern cross). Joe (with ISC hat on) - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog