[86096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: h-root-servers.net (Level3 Question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Oct 23 14:01:57 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:00:10 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20051023113136.GC30833@srv01.cluenet.de> (Daniel Roesen's
message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:31:36 +0200")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Daniel Roesen:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:59:15AM +0200, Peter Dambier wrote:
>> I means, here in germany we cannot see h.root-servers.net
>
> Nonsense. There is nothing like "geopolitical routing".
I wouldn't call it "geopolitical routing", "routing according to local
policy" is more appropriate. And it's quite common (especially in
Germany, for quite a few reasons).
> DREN seems to have a problem there.
Not clear to me. A traceroute with the wrong protocol (i.e. not
53/UDP nor 53/TCP) is not particularly enlightening.
> I can see absolutely NO connection to any L3/Cogent dispute.
This is something I can agree with. 8-)