2nd Root Server in Europe
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Marcel Schneider
schneider at switch.ch
Wed Jan 15 16:19:09 CET 1997
On Monday, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel Karrenberg writes: > Dear colleagues, > I have received an informal query from IANA about RIPE's opinion about > the placement of a second root name server in Europe at the LINX > operated by VBCnet. This should be discussed at the next meeting. > Personally I think that placement at the LINX makes good sense because > of current network topology. Is that true ? We currently have ; formerly NIC.NORDU.NET ; . 3600000 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.36.148.17 in the north of Europe and according to above proposal a second root name server in the north of Europe, just one hop from one to the other. How about middle and south Europe ? Wouldn't it make sense to have at least one additional NS in these densely populated regions to provide better access times there ? This is just a question, nothing more. > Daniel Marcel Schneider at SWITCH > ----- Begin Included Message ----- >>From jdd at avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net Thu Jan 9 11:03:28 1997 > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:04:48 +0000 (GMT) > From: Jim Dixon <jdd at vbc.net> > To: iana at iana.org, postel at isi.edu > Cc: paul at vix.com > Subject: Re: UK root nameserver > Two months ago I wrote to you regarding the possibility of our setting > up a root name server in the UK. To date I have received no reply at > all, other than something from a robot promising a reply from a human > being within ten days; this of course never came. > I have been just now been asked to report back to the board of the UK > Internet Service Providers Association regarding this request. Would > it be possible for someone at IANA to give us some indication of what > your response is likely to be? > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Jim Dixon wrote: >> Several days ago one of our engineers talked to Paul Vixie in California >> regarding our setting up a root name server in the United Kingdom. As >> I am sure you are aware, there is only one root server in Europe and >> for many UK networks that server is netwise further from the UK than >> most of the US servers. >> >> We will have a server built to Paul Vixie's recommendations some time >> this week. As he suggests, it will be placed in its own class C on a >> private LAN segment. This will be on a 100 Mbps port on a router with >> a 100 Mbps connection to the LINX, the London Internet Exchange, which >> is the major UK peering point (http://www.linx.net). The LINX is >> actually attracting a significant number of networks from the continent: >> we now have one Dutch and two German members, with EBONE talking about >> joining in December. >> >> This proposal has the endorsement of the UK Internet Service Providers >> Association (http://www.ispa.org.uk), of which I am one of the >> directors. ISPA is more or less equivalent to the CIX in the US. The >> machine will be operated by VBCnet, which is an owner/ member of the >> LINX, and will be, as I said, one hop from the LINX on a 100 Mbps port. >> The LINX and our London PoP are located in Telehouse Europe, which is >> the UK's premier telecommunications centre. Engineering staff are on duty >> 24x7. Telehouse has exceptionally high security, multiply redundant high >> speed telecommunications links, and multiply redundant power supplies. >> >> Should you need any further information or additional material in >> support of this proposal, we will of course be happy to supply it. >> I can be contacted at either of the numbers below, by email, or >> at 011 44 973 737 881 anytime. > - -- > Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net > tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 > ----- End Included Message -----
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