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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: 9 Mar 91 02:51:32 GMT
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dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton) writes:

>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

In Australia, we're attempting to solve this (and avoid the problems
that a root nameserver would bring) by having a very well known
forwarder nameserver - that everyone (just about) uses.  That namserver
still needs to make queries to the root nameservers across the ocean,
but it only needs to make them once (per TTL).  Everyone else can pick up
the answer from that nameserver's cache.

kre