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 ICM-MAE-E#sh ip bgp 128.63.4.82 % Network not in table ICM-FIX-E>sh ip bgp 128.63.4.82 % Network not in table 1 cpe2.Washington.mci.net (192.41.177.181) 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 2 border2-hssi4-0.Washington.mci.net (204.70.57.9) [AS 3561] 12 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 core-fddi-1.Washington.mci.net (204.70.3.1) [AS 3561] 0 msec 4 msec 4 msec 4 core-hssi-3.Atlanta.mci.net (204.70.1.10) [AS 3561] 24 msec 16 msec 20 msec 5 core-hssi-4.Houston.mci.net (204.70.1.26) [AS 3561] 40 msec 36 msec 36 msec 6 core-hssi-3.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.1.34) [AS 3561] 76 msec 72 msec 76 msec 7 border1-fddi0-0.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.2.130) [AS 3561] 72 msec 72 msec 72 msec 8 csunet-losnettos.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.48.6) [AS 3561] 76 msec 76 msec 76 msec 9 ISI-SWRL-GW.LN.NET (204.102.78.1) [AS 2150] 284 msec 236 msec 216 msec 10 ln-gw.isi.edu (128.9.16.1) [AS 226] 228 msec 196 msec 80 msec 11 NS1.ISI.EDU (128.9.0.107) [AS 226] 80 msec 80 msec * 1 mae-east.psi.net (192.41.177.245) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 2 38.1.2.14 [AS 174] 124 msec 16 msec 4 msec 3 C.PSI.NET (192.33.4.12) [AS 174] 4 msec 8 msec 16 msec 1 icm-dc-1-H1/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.10) 12 msec 12 msec 4 msec 2 icm-dc-2b-F2/0.icp.net (198.67.131.34) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 3 icm-fix-e-H2/0-T3.icp.net (192.157.65.122) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 4 sura9-fix-cf.sura.net (192.203.229.9) 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec 5 umd-cpk2-c1.sura.net (192.221.61.2) [AS 86] 12 msec 8 msec 4 msec 6 csc1gw-f0.umd.edu (128.8.1.224) [AS 86] 4 msec 8 msec 8 msec 7 TERP.UMD.EDU (128.8.10.90) [AS 86] 8 msec 4 msec 4 msec 1 sl-mae-e-F0/0.sprintlink.net (192.41.177.241) 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 2 sl-dc-8-H1/0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.10.41) [AS 1239] 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 3 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) [AS 1239] 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 4 sl-stk-5-H1/0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.10.2) [AS 1239] 68 msec 64 msec 64 msec 5 icm-fix-w-H2/0-T3.icp.net (144.228.10.22) [AS 1239] 136 msec 68 msec 80 msec 6 NS.NASA.GOV (192.52.195.10) [AS 297] 68 msec 68 msec 68 msec 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) 164 msec 16 msec 0 msec 3 icm-pen-1-H1/0-5M.icp.net (198.67.131.18) 8 msec 16 msec 16 msec 4 icm-uk-1-H0/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.26) 104 msec 100 msec 100 msec 5 icm-stockholm-2-H0/0-5M.icp.net (198.67.131.42) 124 msec 128 msec 136 msec 6 nord-gw.nordu.net (192.36.148.194) [AS 2603] 196 msec 128 msec 124 msec 7 NIC.NORDU.NET (192.36.148.17) [AS 2603] 128 msec 128 msec 128 msec 1 Vienna1.VA.Alter.Net (192.41.177.249) 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec 2 Vienna5.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.11.9) [AS 701] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 3 San-Jose3.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.13.5) [AS 701] 68 msec 68 msec 68 msec 4 San-Jose5.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.27.6) [AS 701] 64 msec 68 msec 68 msec 5 Palo-Alto1.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.29.3) [AS 701] 68 msec 72 msec 208 msec 6 Palo-Alto3.CA.ALTER.NET (137.39.47.7) [AS 701] 232 msec 72 msec 68 msec 7 fw.ramona.vix.com (204.123.0.3) [AS 33] 84 msec 68 msec 72 msec 8 NS.ISC.ORG (192.5.5.241) [AS 3557] 72 msec 72 msec 68 msec 1 icm-dc-1-H1/0-T3.icp.net (198.67.131.10) 12 msec 8 msec 4 msec 2 icm-dc-2b-F2/0.icp.net (198.67.131.34) 0 msec 0 msec 12 msec 3 icm-fix-e-H2/0-T3.icp.net (192.157.65.122) 20 msec 4 msec 4 msec 4 192.203.229.251 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec 5 137.209.1.2 [AS 568] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec 6 GSI-GW3.DDN.MIL (198.25.64.2) [AS 568] 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec 7 NS.NIC.DDN.MIL (192.112.36.4) [AS 568] 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec
For security and stability reasons (aswell as political) they should not be run by a single organisation.
they never have been.
The Mannings proposal of a single domain, seems to me like the first step... --Peter