[48508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?=)
Thu Jun 6 10:48:21 2002
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:46:05 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Nilsson?= <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: apnic-talk@lists.apnic.net, lir-wg@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu,
tech-l@ams-ix.net
In-Reply-To: <20020606141634.GC6350@puck.nether.net>
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--On Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:16:34 -0400 Jared Mauch
<jared@puck.Nether.net> wrote:
> While a good idea, not everyone can announce or reach the
> IX fabrics that they connect to or are out there.
>=20
> One solution to that problem is to have the IX operate a
> zeebra/gated/whatnot box (or router+machine combo) that
> announces a /24 and as part of connecting to the IX people
> are required to peer (and provide transit) for that /24 for
> the "good of the internet".
>=20
> This would allow everyone that connects to the IX to see
> the benifits of having a close (to their network that is) dns server
> as well as if my provider does not announce the DE-CIX, LINX, mae-e,
> mae-w, paix, nyiix, or whatever space to me, i can still reach a server
> placed at the IX via their network or via their peers/upstreams.
This is done in Sweden, by the exchange point company Netnod,
<http://www.netnod.se/>. They have an AS of their own, which is free to
peer with, in which a number of crucial services are located, for instance:
* Root DNS server
* COM/NET/ORG DNS server
* DNS for a number of ccTLDs including Sweden.=20
* NTP masters directly synchronised to swedish standard time
* RIPE whois mirror.=20
Some of these services are present at several Netnod IXen, notably ccTLD
and NTP.=20
It works, and gives excellent service levels.=20
--=20
M=E5ns Nilsson Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE
We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
