: > There's an easy fix to that particular situation: Make the first (or first : > two) listed servers anycast, and the rest unicast. : : It would require a central management (or at least a central : oversight) of the root name servers and I do not believe there is one: : each root name server anycasts at will, without a leader saying ("A : and B will anycast, the others will stay unicast").

Well, that's something for the root server operators to think about and discuss amongst themselves. I know several of them are reading this list, and may be reading this thread. 8-)

Plus, A is verisign so any hopes of cluefulness or working for the community are fading fast!

Still doesn't help .ORG, which is 100% anycast and thus has no DNS-based redundancy (see my experience elsewhere in this thread).

It does - there are two! Yuo just mean less than 13 as per the root. What is the maximum number you can fit in a single NS reply for a 3 letter tld such as .com/.org ? (Is it still 13? I'm not familiar with the DNS protocol at that level) Steve