Re: placement of secondary name servers for .uk.

[Cricket Liu]

> One final question. Randy posted a traceroute to ns0.ja.net. However,
> for .uk. we have ns.uu.net and ns.eu.net, which might be "closer" to
> randy (for this example). Which server would Randy prefer to use?
> Do resolvers take the "closest?". AFAIK, from reading "DNS & BIND"
> it's all rather random. Thoughts? Does this randomness affect the
placement
> of the servers?

No, BIND name servers will tend to use the closest of a set of authoritative
name servers, as measured by roundtrip time.  (It's in the book.)

cricket