If ISP located at China with domain name with www.*.com, then probably unreachable because of its RR stored in the DN Server located at USA. This was true when Taiwan earthquaked on Dec.26, 2006. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/boxing_day_earthquake_taiwan/
That is why the draft uses P2P technology. >From: Joao Damas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: >To: é»çç?<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [DNSOP] I-D ACTION:draft-licanhuang-dnsop-distributeddns-04.txt >Date:Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:17:05 +0200 > > >On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:58 AM, é»çç?wrote: >> >> For example, the fibre cables connecting US with China was broken >> by earthquake, then almost all web pages was unreachable even the >> machine was in China because of root servers are located in USA. > >Not so. Have a look at http://www.isc.org/ops/f-root/ for the part >that refers to f.root-servers.net >There are at least 2 other Internet root server instances in mainland >China, and additional ones in the Hong Kong area. >Lack of access to root servers was definitely not at the source of any >unreachability. > >Joao Damas >ISC
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