[126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kosters)
Mon Jul 31 12:01:19 1995
From: Mark Kosters <markk@internic.net>
To: roll@stupi.se (Peter Lothberg)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 11:54:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.0.807049621.roll@Junk.Stupi.SE> from "Peter Lothberg" at Jul 29, 95 10:27:01 pm
Erik Sherk and I have arranged for internic to be one hop off of suranet's
router on mae-east. Additionally, expect to see some changes in the root
servers configuration on namedroppers as soon as I can dig out of my large
amount of mail that I recently have received...
Mark
>
> > the root servers are not currently suffering from load (my own server does
> > about 100 queries per second, which is about 10% of the capacity of my little
> > 66Mhz/64MB BSD/OS machine). the goal here is to reduce load on the wide area
> > net rather than on the root servers themselves. and also to increase the
> > likelihood that any given host can reach a root server during times of wide-
> > scale connectivity problems (which seem to be more common lately?)
>
> >From a pretty central place in the Internet;
>
> 1 icm-dc-1-H1/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.10) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
> 2 icm-dc-2b-F2/0.icp.net (198.67.131.34) 40 msec 8 msec 88 msec
> 3 icm-fix-e-H2/0-T3.icp.net (192.157.65.122) 20 msec 0 msec 0 msec
> 4 sura9-fix-cf.sura.net (192.203.229.9) 56 msec 4 msec 4 msec
> 5 cpk9-cpk-cf.sura.net (128.167.252.9) [AS 86] 0 msec 4 msec 4 msec
> 6 wtn8-cpk9-c3.sura.net (128.167.212.2) [AS 86] 8 msec 4 msec 4 msec
> 7 wtn4-wtn8-ce.sura.net (128.167.24.4) [AS 86] 12 msec 12 msec 4 msec
> 8 netsol-wtn4-c1.sura.net (192.221.22.2) [AS 86] 16 msec 4 msec 8 msec
> 9 NS.INTERNIC.NET (198.41.0.4) [AS 86] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec
