root servers

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Bill Manning <bmanning at isi.edu> wrote:

> % Damien SOULIER <damien.soulier at free.fr> wrote:
> % > I have one question and i can't find any answer.
> % > Why there is only 13 root servers.
> % > If someone can give me an answer, it will be fine.
> %=20
> % -  13 is enough ( there was 11 some years ago)
> % -  13 is pretty much he limit to pack in one answer.
> %=20
> % There is no architectural reason for 13, although it
> % is a reasonable value.
> %=20
> % Measurments on rootservers shows that they are no bottleneck, and
> % they are reasonable spreac acrosss the globe.
> %=20
> % > Damien
> %=20
> % Peter H=3DE5kanson=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20=3D20


> for the late 1980s and through 1996, there were nine (9) root servers.
> in 1996, the root-servers were re-named, allowing the addition of four (=
4)
> more servers, giving us the current number of thirteen (13).  The reason
> for this is that a priming query needs to fit within a single unfragment=
ed
> UDP packet.

Thanks for the clarification.

Do you happen to have records of which 9, their locations and
which organisations running them ?

( i had the impression of 11 but i'm often wrong )



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