Please don't create confusions. I didn't made any assertion. I mentioned issue with India, but Graham came with point that issue is similar in Africa. Good point if he knows that. Certainly relevent to issue I mentioned for India. Again - I have not verified this. I don't know much about ISPs in Africa to find their looking glasses and test routing. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
No idea about Africa
then on what basis did you make the assertion?
but certainly none of gTLD servers in India.
i am slightly suspicious of this. often, root servers are accompanied by gtld servers, and there are more than zero root servers in india.
there is a fashion among root and gtld servers to attempt to limit the scope of their ancast routing announcements. this makes them hard to find from a (topologic) distance.
randy
Ok, here's some data I collected couple of months back. I did consistant lookup for days to be sure that it's not temporary routing glitch giving such results. Traceroute to gTLDs from BSNL AS9829 - http://cdn.anuragbhatia.com/uploads/2012/03/gtld-traceroute-bsnl-as9829.txt Traceroute to gTLDs from Bharti Airtel AS9498 - http://cdn.anuragbhatia.com/uploads/2012/03/gtld-traceroute-airtel-as9498.tx... Traceroutes to rDNS in-addr.arpa servers from BSNL - http://cdn.anuragbhatia.com/uploads/2012/03/rdns-bsnl-as9829.txt Traceroutes to rDNS in-addr.arpa servers from Airtel - http://cdn.anuragbhatia.com/uploads/2012/03/rdns-airtel-as9498.txt Thanks for your time & comments. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected network! Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com