[136593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Feb 3 16:08:48 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D4ACB3B.4080200@brightok.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:59:18 -1000
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> You missed my pointed. Root servers are hard coded, but they aren't =
using a well known anycast address.
Actually, most of the IP addresses used for root servers are anycast =
addresses and given they're in every resolver on the Internet, they're =
pretty well known...
Of course, one might ask why those well known anycast addresses are =
"owned" by 12 different organizations instead of being "golden" =
addresses specified in an RFC or somesuch, but that gets into root =
server operator politics...=20
Regards,
-drc
