Re: B-Root address change [Re: [DNSOP] AS112 for TLDs]

bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Wed, 28 November 2007 16:35 UTC

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From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com>, Peter Koch <pk@DENIC.DE>, IETF DNSOP WG <dnsop@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: B-Root address change [Re: [DNSOP] AS112 for TLDs]
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:28:47PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:22:41PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > > The increase in traffic might easily be due to more favourable connectivity
> > > to 'B', which would lead many resolver implementations to shift more queries
> > > to it.
> > > 
> > > 	Bert
> > > 
> > 
> > 	old "B" topolgy didnt change... :)
> 
> Admittedly, you have a far better view of the internet than I do :-) - But
> I'm not ruling out changes *other* people made to their networks.
> 
> Also, perhaps the other roots just became less attractive.
> 
> 	Bert
> 

	the increase in queries occured after we stopped running
	a nameserver on the address and more than a year after 
	the public announcement and change in the hints files.

	not saying other topology change didn't have the effects
	you describe, it just seems odd.

--bill

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