root servers
Cricket Liu
cricket at menandmice.com
Wed Dec 11 22:28:07 UTC 2002
Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> For increased redundancy? I'll tell you this - if any of the root
> server maintainers have any smarts, they have probably put backup
> copies of their name server(s) in multiple locations with some
> failover mechanism, and with multiple physical servers doing failover
> at each physical location (think F5's BigIP/3DNS).
I believe very few of the root name servers are actually single
servers. f.root-servers.net, for example, is at least two, and
soon to be more. See http://www.isc.org/ISC/news/pr-11172002.html.
cricket
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