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From: kre@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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Date: 3 Mar 91 18:16:47 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu> <75539@bu.edu.bu.edu> <1991Feb26.092928.954@ecrc.de> <1991Mar3.070813.29410@riacs.edu>
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medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov (Milo S. Medin) writes:

>In article <1991Feb26.092928.954@ecrc.de>, dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton) writes:
>|> 
>|> Sigh - I know, but why are we still going over the pond to get to the UK ?
>|> Is there a reason why we cannot get the root name server in Europe operational
>|> and simply go over mcsun or whatever.

>The answer is not politics.

The answer is that the routing question (how to route from DE to UK,
etc), has nothing whatever to do with root nameserver locations,
but with what wires are installed where, and how the routing is
arranged after that.  Where the root nameservers are changes nothing.

kre