root name servers
Kamau Wanguhu
kamau at crl.dec.com
Wed Oct 28 15:04:41 UTC 1998
How about the other ones from L-M where are they "physically" located?
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Kamau Wanguhu
Cambridge Research Lab
Compaq Computer Corporation
kamau at crl.dec.com <mailto:kamau at crl.dec.com>
+1.617.692.7613
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Howard [mailto:phil at whistler.intur.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 09:34
> To: jra at scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: root name servers
>
>
> Jay R. Ashworth writes...
>
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:29:43AM -0800,
> bmanning at 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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