Hi, ISC is currently in the process of upgrading our routers in Auckland, and it behooves us to remind the local community that there is a local instance of f.root-servers.net here at the SkyTower, connected to APE. With the DDoS against several of the root servers back in February which proved our anycast model (most folks never noticed there was even a issue), we are once again soliciting peers across our 40+ nodes so we can "keep root server traffic local" wherever possible. So if you are not already peering with us and would wish to do so, please fill out our peering form here: http://www.isc.org/ops/peering/request/ For those of you that don't wish to peer with us over public IX's, we will consider private peering arrangements if you are already present (in the case of Auckland) at the SkyTower. For those of you only present at the WIX, might I suggest contacting Autonomica, who operate a instance of i.root-servers.net there. Hope to be peering with you soon (if we don't already). Best Wishes - Peter -- Peter_Losher(a)isc.org | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow"