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From: smart@manta.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Robert Smart)
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Subject: Re: root server changes
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Date: 29 Jun 91 06:19:49 GMT
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In article <12697156396.45.TEST@NIC.DDN.MIL> NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL (DDN Reference) writes:
>addition of the first non-US server in Sweden, NIC.NORDU.NET.  NORDUnet
>is the backbone network for the Nordic countries, connecting their academic
>networks with the US Internet and the european IP networks.

It has been argued that this would create a lot of traffic from the USA
to the external root nameserver as machines try to work out the closest
root name server. I hope that somebody will report (after a while) whether
in fact this does cause any problems.

Bob Smart <smart@mel.dit.csiro.au>