Erik Sherk and I have arranged for internic to be one hop off of suranet's router on mae-east. Additionally, expect to see some changes in the root servers configuration on namedroppers as soon as I can dig out of my large amount of mail that I recently have received... Mark
the root servers are not currently suffering from load (my own server does about 100 queries per second, which is about 10% of the capacity of my little 66Mhz/64MB BSD/OS machine). the goal here is to reduce load on the wide area net rather than on the root servers themselves. and also to increase the likelihood that any given host can reach a root server during times of wide- scale connectivity problems (which seem to be more common lately?)
From a pretty central place in the Internet;
1 icm-dc-1-H1/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.10) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 2 icm-dc-2b-F2/0.icp.net (198.67.131.34) 40 msec 8 msec 88 msec 3 icm-fix-e-H2/0-T3.icp.net (192.157.65.122) 20 msec 0 msec 0 msec 4 sura9-fix-cf.sura.net (192.203.229.9) 56 msec 4 msec 4 msec 5 cpk9-cpk-cf.sura.net (128.167.252.9) [AS 86] 0 msec 4 msec 4 msec 6 wtn8-cpk9-c3.sura.net (128.167.212.2) [AS 86] 8 msec 4 msec 4 msec 7 wtn4-wtn8-ce.sura.net (128.167.24.4) [AS 86] 12 msec 12 msec 4 msec 8 netsol-wtn4-c1.sura.net (192.221.22.2) [AS 86] 16 msec 4 msec 8 msec 9 NS.INTERNIC.NET (198.41.0.4) [AS 86] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec