Setting up a Root name server

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Sep 3 23:34:05 UTC 1999


> That's funny, every time I've switched from using a remote DNS to a local
> caching one, Iv'e seen a remarkable speed up. The ONLY think that changed
> is the RTT to the servers.

This makes perfect sense, and in fact is one reason to have caching
servers.

Why do you want to go from having a caching server, to having a server
which is declared as a "root" server?

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