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From: dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton)
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Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.090412.763@ecrc.de>
Date: 6 Mar 91 09:04:12 GMT
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In article <kre.668024207@mundamutti.cs.mu.OZ.AU> you write:
|> 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.
|> 
Yes indeed, Robert is correct, the wires exist, the routing sometimes doesnt.
I was talking about all the DNS queries that end up going to the root
servers in US. What I guess I should have said was: can we avoid sending
nameserver queries across the ocean by installing a root name server here
in Europe and *also* fix the routing so that we dont have MX records etc
in New York for a site that's just down the road. As Daniel Karrenberg has
pointed out there's some hope yet. 
  
Dave Morton,
European Computer Research Centre		Tel. + (49) 89-92699-139
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E-mail:	dave@ecrc.de