Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: >> Once again you don't understand the difference between a single machine and >> multiple machines acting as a single server for load balancing and hot >> backups. >> >> And by my counting, e-, f-, i-, j- and l-root is five urls, not 19. > > Can I ask please, what is the point of this debate? As anyone who's > dug into DNS knows, there are thirteen root server names, thirteen > root server IPv4 addresses, a shade under thirteen IPv6 addresses (I > think it's eleven at the moment), and (mainly thanks to anycast) lots > more than thirteen actual responsive servers right near you. And then > there are non-authoritative caches of (some of) their data in every > caching resolver around the world, so you quite possibly have partial > DNS root servers right in your own home. What has this to do with > control, or the US versus Europe, or Debian?
Great points, well worth discussing on the OFF TOPIC list. :-) http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic --Dave
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