On 17-dec-04, at 12:25, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
but even if 5 or 8 or 12 addresses become unreachable the timeouts get bad enough for users to notice.
We can turn this into a Good Practice: do not put an instance of every root name server on any given exchange point.
Actually, this is only a theoretical issue, the current maximum seems to be only three (at the LINX in London).
Well, there may be only three "at" the LINX, but from where I'm sitting, 7 are reachable over the AMS-IX, 4 over ISP #1 and 1 over ISPs #2 and #3, respectively.
Interestingly enough, b, c, d and f all share this hop:
6 portch1.core01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (195.69.144.124)
(195.69.144.0/23 is the AMS-IX exchange subnet.)
