[32455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Down under NANOG: Telstra problems and root servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Smith)
Wed Nov 22 02:20:53 2000
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:18:16 +1000
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>
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No one mentions that Southern Cross has just come on stream, so I'd expect
the current situation of apparently poor international connectivity to
Australia to improve over the next year or so. As Chris Chaundy said, the
way forward is if some independent group (e.g./i.e. APNIC) ran the root
server, if it were to be available, and multihomed to the providers who had
their own independent international connections to the US and the rest of
AsiaPac.
philip
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At 14:20 21/11/00 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
>In addition the the previously reported cable cut, several folks have
>written about a fire at an electrical substation cut power for much of
>eastern Sydney, the location of a major Telstra server facility. As far
>as I can
>tell, the fire had little affect on Telstra's servers because backup
>generators were in place.
>
>Although Telstra is the dominant ISP (and telephone company) in Australia,
>there are other ISPs using other facilities which were not affected by the
>cable cut.
>
>So, if a root server was placed in Australia, to whom's network should
>it be attached. Would OPTUS and Telstra cooperate and jointly provide
>connectivity and diversity? Or is the most connected place in the
>asia-pacific region still the west coast of the US?
