[83826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: {f,i,k}.root-servers.net anycast instances deployed in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Fri Aug 26 12:39:34 2005
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a050826072847f5a57b@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Now for comments in that admirable institution, the Indian press.
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms
>
> Two things -
>
>> The move will help bring down the cost of accessing Internet in
>> India, where the clone root servers have been set up in Delhi, Mumbai
>> and Chennai. "Normally, other countries get to host only two such
>> services, but we fought hard and got three," said communications and
>> IT minister Dayanidhi Maran.
>
> Maran seems to think this is as big an achievement as a kid throwing a
> tantrum to get three chocolate bars instead of two, which it is not ..
Interesting how these myths pop up...
As of a few weeks ago there were 97 root server instances listed on
www.root-servers.org, so this presumably brings it up to 100 unless there
were more deployments that I've missed in the last few weeks.
Of those, the countries that each have two root servers are:
Canada
Spain
France
Switzerland
Sweden
Finland
UAE
Hong Kong
Indonesia
New Zealand
South Africa
So that's 22 root servers. The other 78 are in countries that either have
only one or more than two.
The two in Johhannesburg are the only two in Africa. South America has
only one in the entire continent.
-Steve
