Setting up a Root name server

[Cricket Liu]

chris <chris at megabytecoffee.com> wrote in message
news:<37D066D3.FD678194 at megabytecoffee.com>...
> > If I read the source correctly, they'll all get random, low RTT values
to
> > begin with, and then the first query that requires contacting a root
name
> > server will go to the one that happened to get the lowest RTT.
>
> But, eventually wouldn't the resolvers all settle on the DNS server with
the
> best RTT(mine)?

No, if an internal name server randomly chooses to query a name server other
than your local root--which it will do 93% of the time, according to my
calculator, if BIND's RTT seeding routine is really random--they'll never
even find out about your local root.

cricket

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