Root servers

[Cricket Liu]

> >Probably not very long - the root zone isn't terribly big (60K).
> >It's at ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone if you'd like a 
> >look!
> 
> A better question is how long the COM TLD takes to transfer.  My guess is
> that they don't use zone transfer for it, but instead use FTP or SCP to
> transfer the compressed com.zone.gz file.  A few years ago, when the
> com.zone.gz file was still in the above directory, it took me a couple of
> hours to download it, so I figure downloading the uncompressed file would
> have taken the better part of a day, and a zone transfer would be similar
> (perhaps only half as long, since there's lots of whitespace in the file,
> zone transfers just transfer the names and binary data for the other
> fields).

My understanding is that com takes about eight hours 
to transfer to the com slave in Hong Kong.

cricket

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