How about the other ones from L-M where are they "physically" located? ---- Kamau Wanguhu Cambridge Research Lab Compaq Computer Corporation kamau@crl.dec.com <mailto:kamau@crl.dec.com> +1.617.692.7613  

-----Original Message----- From: Phil Howard [mailto:phil@whistler.intur.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 09:34 To: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: root name servers

Jay R. Ashworth writes...

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On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:29:43AM -0800, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

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anybody knows the physical location of all root name servers, or a pointer ? Is it really important?

The sort of person who wants to know this is roughly the same sort of person who is interested in knowing that the AT&T Startum 1 clock is in Hillsboro MO.

You know: geeks. :-)

OTOH, some of us don't care about those root servers because we already know where our own root servers are. All but one of my DNS servers are grass roots servers. You can take down all the root servers, and if that didn't also take out the TLD (e.g. .COM, .NET, .ORG, .GOV) servers, then I won't notice it much (except to wonder why there is a dropoff in my load on smtp and http).

BTW, knowing where the main root servers are topologically is probably more dangerous than knowing where they all are physically. And that is information most everyone already has.

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