[apnic-talk] "...13 golden addresses for root-servers..."

To: <marc at fuchsia dot bijt dot net>, "Daniel Karrenberg" <Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe dot net>
Subject: [apnic-talk] "...13 golden addresses for root-servers..."
From: "Jim Fleming" <JimFleming at ameritech dot net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:20:38 -0600
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http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc11/msg02030.html
"Below an idea that RIPE (which operates K) is considering. In short:
there would be several machines with the same IP number in different
places using anycast. So there would in fact be more root-servers that
appear to be just one of the 13."
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RIPE lives off of leasing 32-bit address space, not root-server operations.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

As for 13 golden addresses for root-servers. Some ISPs just route all 13 of
those addresses to two local machines and then have those one or two machines
reply with the TLD zones they want to support. They then send no traffic to the
"real roots", no matter where they are located in the world.


Jim Fleming
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