[103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Sat Jul 29 12:17:52 1995
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: roll@stupi.se (Peter Lothberg)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.0.807021711.roll@Junk.Stupi.SE> from "Peter Lothberg" at Jul 29, 95 02:41:51 pm
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> How about trying to move some of the root name servers to the exchange
> points?
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> This will make them avaliable to all ISP/NSP's regardless of peering
> arrangements with others and would also improve connectivity to them.
>
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> For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should
> not be run by a single organisation.
>
This is already being done.
You have one at the DGix, the Internic machine is being moved,
and there is a proposal to move/add additional
servers to other exchange points around the globe.
What else would you suggest doing?
I'm working on a plan to restructure the mbone topology to better reflect
the current actual topology. There are some other ideas in the mill.
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--bill
