North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: {f,i,k}.root-servers.net anycast instances deployed in India
On 27/08/05, Steve Gibbard <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we look at the Asia-Pacific region (for these purposes everything east > of the UAE and West of the Americas), and then exclude Japan, Korea, and > Singapore, countries that are undisputably part of the Internet core, what > we've got are a bunch of F and I Roots, with a K Root in Brisbane and now > a K Root somewhere in India. Having root servers that are part of three > different anycast clouds would make India somewhat special within its > region. > The crying shame of it all is that most ISPs, for various reasons [below] don't advertise all their routes at nixi - and so exchange piddly little amounts of traffic where they could exchange LOTS more. So, you'd find a whole lot of Indian traceroutes, even between two local ISPs, go out through Singapore (or possibly Reach / NTT now, in some cases), and/or PAIX Having three anycast instances in a country is no damned use when the nearest roots, network wise, are elsewhere. If traffic stats from those things are available, and are studied, I am reasonably sure we'd get some interesting results. But for now, having X number of anycast roots in the country is only scoring brownie points in the i-governance debate. --srs Reasons include - * don't have good people with bgp clue, only "senior network admins" who ask Philip Smith what a route map is, in an advanced bgp tutorial at a recent SANOG... * don't trust each other too much at all, and fear that peering means that people can rip them off by using those links for transit as well * have a network that's a mess of botched mpls and other implementations, all held together by a bunch of static routes upstream * or in some cases have, besides their usual IP space, a huge lot of deaggregated IP blocks that are a legacy from when they had a whole lot of leased lines purchased from the then incumbent + sole upstream VSNL ..
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