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http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc11/msg02030.html "Below an idea that RIPE (which operates K) is considering. In short: there would be several machines with the same IP number in different places using anycast. So there would in fact be more root-servers that appear to be just one of the 13." ==== RIPE lives off of leasing 32-bit address space, not root-server operations. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space As for 13 golden addresses for root-servers. Some ISPs just route all 13 of those addresses to two local machines and then have those one or two machines reply with the TLD zones they want to support. They then send no traffic to the "real roots", no matter where they are located in the world. Jim Fleming 128-bit DNS is closer than you think... COM...DE...NET...ORG...INFO...BIZ...US...ONLINE http://ipv8.dyndns.tv http://ipv8.dyns.cx http://ipv8.no-ip.com http://ipv8.no-ip.biz http://ipv8.no-ip.info http://ipv8.myip.us http://ipv8.dyn.ee http://ipv8.community.net.au * APNIC-TALK: General APNIC Discussion List * * To unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe" to apnic-talk-request@apnic.net *