Setting up a Root name server

[chris]

So you are telling me that by having a root nameserver that can answer query's
faster I would not speed up my network? I Think your flame is flawed.

If my resolving DNS server has a list of root name servers that at best are
40ms away. It is going to take A LOT more time to access then a root
nameserver that is say.. 2ms away. Not to mention that most of the root
nameservers can't answer queries all the time. Sometimes a.root-servers.net
works great.. and other times it sucks. By having a root server on our network
with the best RTT that can answer query's all the time, we bypass all that.

I'm not sure where you get off saying that I don't know how DNS operates. But
I would ask that you use a more mature method of pointing out flaws in a
public forum.




Michael Milligan wrote:

> >     How would I go about setting up root name server, I have the TLD
> > files from internic and would like to set up a root server for my
> > network. We currently host about 250k IP's and believe that this would
> > speed up our network a lot.
>
> You are incorrect.  You don't understand how DNS operates.  It's a
> *distributed* database, not a central database, and for good reason.  Pick
> up a book on DNS theory and read it.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Milligan - Acme Byte & Wire LLC - milli at acmebw.com