On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 12:36 PM David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Rodney W. Grimes via Starlink wrote: > > >> I keep wondering when or if Nasa will find a way to move their DNS > >> root server "up there" . DNS data is not all that much... it is the > >> original distributed database... > > > > As others have pointed out a "root server" may not be very advantages, > > but what I think would be far better is to put up a couple of anycast > > recursive caching resolvers, aka 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 and almost anyone > > can do that, including starlink itself. > > I believe that the root servers are all (or almost all) anycast nowdays.
Anycast is perfect for an orbital DNS. > > David Lang -- AMA March 31: https://www.broadband.io/c/broadband-grant-events/dave-taht Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
