Localized Root Servers in Europe?

Sun Apr 8 23:04:07 UTC 2007

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote:

> http://www.circleid.com/posts/submit_comment/splitting_root_too_late/

I tried to look, but I can't seem to find circleid.com; perhaps 
bestbuy is intercepting my dns traffic :)

Sun Apr 08 16:01:25
mghali at ernie.snark.net:~$ dig +trace www.circleid.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> +trace www.circleid.com
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       441175  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       441175  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 436 bytes from 192.168.0.144#53(192.168.0.144) in 17 ms

com.                    172800  IN      NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 506 bytes from 198.41.0.4#53(A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 94 
ms

circleid.com.           172800  IN      NS      udns1.ultradns.net.
circleid.com.           172800  IN      NS      udns2.ultradns.net.
;; Received 118 bytes from 192.48.79.30#53(J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 
161 ms

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

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