[151088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anurag Bhatia)
Sun Mar 11 07:02:26 2012
In-Reply-To: <5611D482-8564-4B81-8758-79CB1713037F@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:31:35 +0530
From: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
To: Peter Losher <plosher@isc.org>
Cc: APNIC Mailing List <apnic-talk@apnic.net>,
NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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Thanks for info Peter
I missed that because firstly no routes from major Indian backbones and
second it is not even mentioned on official site of root servers -
http://www.root-servers.org under F root.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Peter Losher <plosher@isc.org> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
>
> > I can see India has 3 root servers hosting root zone - i, j & k in India
> > which is good. So we can resolve the root zone i.e dot within India.
>
>
> One correction to that; F has been operating in India from NIXI Chennai's
> PoP since 2005. The reason you may not see it from your location in India
> is that it's a local node, so we advertise F's prefixes with the NO_EXPORT
> community string to limit it's reach to networks directly connected to the
> local IX/routeserver @NIXI Chennai.
>
> And even with that restriction as noted at APNIC 33 in Dehli, the node is
> one of our (F's) busiest in Asia...
>
> -Peter
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>
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