[151105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (virendra rode)
Sun Mar 11 19:23:22 2012
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:22:12 -0700
From: virendra rode <virendra.rode@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5611D482-8564-4B81-8758-79CB1713037F@isc.org>
Reply-To: virendra.rode@gmail.com
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On 03/11/2012 03:57 AM, Peter Losher 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.
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I see 192.5.5.0/24 less widely seen by the peers as opposed to
192.5.4.0/23 maybe as you mentioned the longer prefix (/24) should be
visible to clients using local instance of f-root.
Why? It would be bad to attract traffic from half way around the world
to a local node as they are there to serve the local community.
Just wondering how do the other root keepers manage that because reminds
me of an outage (k-root related) sometime september or october time
frame of 2010 that a /24 may have leak more widely than intended from a
one of the local instances.
I know off-topic here but what caught my interest is in "no_export" set
for root server as the outage mentioned above came near the K-root local
instance in India.
regards,
/virendra
>
> 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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