Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms
>
> The govt. would like us to believe that this will save trillions of
> dollars but what exactly is this going to do - do we change our DNS
> server configuration to hit these servers only to reap the benefits or
> does something happen magically ?
All this means is that anycasted mirrors of {f,i,k}.root-servers.net
have been deployed in India.
Before this the nearest root servers [the main ones or their anycasted
instances], network wise, would have been in Singapore, or the USA.
It'll speed up your dns lookups, ideally.
IF your ISP fully peers at NIXI (www.nixi.org)
IF your ISP has the sense to set up BGP properly so that they take full
advantage of having an internet exchange, root server mirrors, and
possibly an akamai cluster ..
The problem is that quite a few Indian ISPs are severely lacking in
terms of router clue. I remember seeing a tutorial on advanced bgp
where a so-called "senior network admin" at one of the larger Indian
ISPs asked Philip Smith, who was taking the tutorial, what a route map
was [2] ...
srs
[1] Philip works for cisco, probably the best teacher of bgp and routing
that I have ever seen
[2] Somewhat like a student in an MA English class asking how many Ts
there are in the word "butter"
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