[48554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Fri Jun 7 04:04:43 2002
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:03:27 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0206061044110.18549-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This is not a political question, only operational process.
>
> Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can quickly
> change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if people
> need to change which name servers are handling the ccTLDs. Last year,
> some of the ccTLD operators were complaining it sometimes took weeks after
> they submitted the change for it to make it into the root zone.
Actually what worries me more is the following.
I did a small check on how frequently DNS servers occure in the European
ccTLDs NS records. If I leave out the ones that only oocure once, I get the
following :
14 NS.EU.NET.
10 NS.UU.NET.
9 SUNIC.SUNET.SE.
3 NS2.NIC.FR.
2 NS.RIPE.NET.
2 NS-EXT.VIX.COM.
2 DNS.PRINCETON.EDU.
2 AUTH02.NS.UU.NET.
This is after checking 18 ccTLDs. Most of them only have four secondaries.
If I read this correctly, the geographic distribution of servers is not
that bad, but it could be better. Preferably by going with more than four
secondaries. Consider that up until not to long ago, several of these
servers where behind the same upstream.
Best regards,
- kurtis -
