Unfortunately not much of traffic is going to J root. BSNL along with its main upstream providers Tata & Airtel - all picking outside routes. Tata AS4755 is taking directly to AS6453 while AS6453 is passing to NTT in London which is next taking back to Japan and then going to HK anycasted node (yeah head shake routing!).
Here's a view:
traceroute to j.gtld-servers.net (192.48.79.30), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router.local (192.168.1.1) [AS8151/AS28513] 1.180 ms 1.621 ms 2.121 ms
2 117.207.48.1 (117.207.48.1) [AS9829] 26.935 ms 29.328 ms 31.956 ms
3 218.248.173.46 (218.248.173.46) [AS9829] 34.393 ms 37.093 ms *
And situation for Airtel isn't better at all for J root. Instead of picking NTT, they are using Packnet/AsiaNetcom because Packnet is likely a client of Hurricane Electric and Airtel peers with HE.
Same problem applies on J gTLD server too. It might be having an instance in India but since no link to local ISPs or niXi...everyone hears J root in Hong Kong.
Anyone from Verisign or Indian ISPs here for onlist or offlist comments?
Again, I apologize for any wrong conclusions. I am still learning all this stuff. Please excuse my ignorance and correct me if you find something.
> Btw coming back to original question - can you put some light on gTLDs in India? Are there any instances? Just to clarify - with gTLD I am refering to .com/net/org primarily.
You would have to ask Verisign as operators of the com/net gTLD servers and Afilias for .org about their DNS deployments. I can only speak for ISC as we operate F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
Best Wishes - Peter
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