{f,i,k}.root-servers.net anycast instances deployed in India

Fri Aug 26 19:23:19 UTC 2005

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, I wrote:

>
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> Now for comments in that admirable institution, the Indian press.
>> 
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms
>> 
>> Two things -
>> 
>>> The move will help bring down the cost of accessing Internet in
>>> India, where the clone root servers have been set up in Delhi, Mumbai
>>> and Chennai. "Normally, other countries get to host only two such
>>> services, but we fought hard and got three," said communications and
>>> IT minister Dayanidhi Maran.
>> 
>> Maran seems to think this is as big an achievement as a kid throwing a
>> tantrum to get three chocolate bars instead of two, which it is not ..
>
> Interesting how these myths pop up...
>
> As of a few weeks ago there were 97 root server instances listed on 
> www.root-servers.org, so this presumably brings it up to 100 unless there 
> were more deployments that I've missed in the last few weeks.
>
> Of those, the countries that each have two root servers are:
> [list of 11 countries]

Sorry, looking at this again, I think I understand what the Minister was 
saying.

If we look at the Asia-Pacific region (for these purposes everything east 
of the UAE and West of the Americas), and then exclude Japan, Korea, and 
Singapore, countries that are undisputably part of the Internet core, what 
we've got are a bunch of F and I Roots, with a K Root in Brisbane and now 
a K Root somewhere in India.  Having root servers that are part of three 
different anycast clouds would make India somewhat special within its 
region.

-Steve