> : > There's an easy fix to that particular situation: Make the first (or first > : > two) listed servers anycast, and the rest unicast. > : > : It would require a central management (or at least a central > : oversight) of the root name servers and I do not believe there is one: > : each root name server anycasts at will, without a leader saying ("A > : and B will anycast, the others will stay unicast"). > > Well, that's something for the root server operators to think about and > discuss amongst themselves. I know several of them are reading this list, > and may be reading this thread. 8-)
Plus, A is verisign so any hopes of cluefulness or working for the community are fading fast! > Still doesn't help .ORG, which is 100% anycast and thus has no DNS-based > redundancy (see my experience elsewhere in this thread). It does - there are two! Yuo just mean less than 13 as per the root. What is the maximum number you can fit in a single NS reply for a 3 letter tld such as .com/.org ? (Is it still 13? I'm not familiar with the DNS protocol at that level) Steve