On 2/3/11 12:59 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Jack Bates wrote: >> You missed my pointed. Root servers are hard coded, but they aren't >> using a well known anycast address. > > Actually, most of the IP addresses used for root servers are anycast > addresses and given they're in every resolver on the Internet, > they're pretty well known... > > Of course, one might ask why those well known anycast addresses are > "owned" by 12 different organizations instead of being "golden" > addresses specified in an RFC or somesuch, but that gets into root > server operator politics...
there are perfectly valid reasons why you might want to renumber one, the current institutional heterogeneity has pretty good prospects for survivability. > Regards, -drc > > >
