Thanks everyone for your replies. I found those really insightful (specially the offlist ones) ;)
I got fairly decent image on why things are looking so bad here. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Che-Hoo CHENG <chch...@ieee.org> wrote: > J root should be j.root-servers.net (192.58.128.30). > > Che-Hoo > > > On 12 Mar, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > > Just looked at j root in detail. > > > Unfortunately not much of traffic is going to J root. BSNL along with its > main upstream providers Tata & Airtel - all picking outside routes. Tata > AS4755 is taking directly to AS6453 while AS6453 is passing to NTT in > London which is next taking back to Japan and then going to HK anycasted > node (yeah head shake routing!). > > > Here's a view: > > traceroute to j.gtld-servers.net (192.48.79.30), 30 hops max, 60 byte > packets > 1 router.local (192.168.1.1) [AS8151/AS28513] 1.180 ms 1.621 ms 2.121 > ms > 2 117.207.48.1 (117.207.48.1) [AS9829] 26.935 ms 29.328 ms 31.956 ms > 3 218.248.173.46 (218.248.173.46) [AS9829] 34.393 ms 37.093 ms * > 4 > 115.114.57.165.static-Mumbai.vsnl.net.in<http://115.114.57.165.static-mumbai.vsnl.net.in/> > (115.114.57.165) > [AS4755] 74.623 ms 78.281 ms 82.352 ms > 5 if-0-100.tcore2.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.39.25) [*] 299.987 ms > 300.397 ms 314.175 ms > 6 if-6-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net (80.231.130.5) [AS6453] 314.573 > ms 264.576 ms 261.030 ms > 7 > Vlan704.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net<http://vlan704.icore1.ldn-london.as6453.net/> > (80.231.130.10) [AS6453] 279.896 ms 280.312 ms * > 8 > Vlan522.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net<http://vlan522.icore1.ldn-london.as6453.net/> > (195.219.83.22) > [AS6453] 333.651 ms 326.233 ms 330.307 ms > 9 ae-4.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.40) [AS2914] 323.084 > ms 324.204 ms 329.300 ms > 10 as-0.r22.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.35) [AS2914] 457.845 > ms 459.011 ms 456.842 ms > 11 as-0.r20.newthk02.hk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.7) [AS2914] 495.869 > ms 495.615 ms 496.840 ms > 12 ae-1.r02.chwahk02.hk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.131) [AS2914] 476.471 > ms 478.525 ms 478.104 ms > 13 * * * > 14 * * * > 15 * * * > > > > > *Router:* gin-mlv-core1 > *Site:* IN, Mumbai - MLV, VSNL > *Command:* show ip bgp 192.48.79.30 > > > BGP routing table entry for *192.48.79.0/24* > Bestpath Modifiers: deterministic-med > Paths: (3 available, best #2) > Multipath: eBGP > 2914 36631 36631, (aggregated by 36631 203.131.245.40) > ldn-icore1. (metric 2991) from mlv-tcore1. (66.110.10.202) > Origin IGP, valid, internal > Community: > Originator: ldn-icore1. 2914 36631 36631, (aggregated by 36631 > 203.131.245.40) ldn-icore1. (metric 2991) from cxr-tcore1. (66.110.10.113) > Origin IGP, valid, internal, best Community: Originator: > ldn-icore1. > 2914 36631 36631, (aggregated by 36631 203.131.245.40) > ldn-icore1. (metric 2991) from mlv-tcore2. (66.110.10.215) > Origin IGP, valid, internal > Community: > Originator: ldn-icore1. > > > > Path via NTT in all cases. > > So Mumbai - London - Japan - HongKong. Very likely because of same old > problem I mentioned - Tata peers with NTT in London but not Japan. > > anurag@laptop:~$ dig j.gtld-servers.net a +short > 192.48.79.30 > > > anurag@laptop:~$ awhois 192.48.79.30 > AS | IP | BGP Prefix | CC | AS Name > 36631 | 192.48.79.30 | 192.48.79.0/24 | US | ZGTLD - VeriSign > Global Registry Services > > > http://bgp.he.net/AS36631#_peers > > > > > And situation for Airtel isn't better at all for J root. Instead of > picking NTT, they are using Packnet/AsiaNetcom because Packnet is likely a > client of Hurricane Electric and Airtel peers with HE. > > Mon Mar 12 14:22:49 GMT+05:30 2012 > traceroute 192.48.79.30 > > Type escape sequence to abort. > Tracing the route to j.gtld-servers.net (192.48.79.30) > > 1 59.145.6.149 [MPLS: Label 800 Exp 0] 288 msec > 59.145.6.145 [MPLS: Label 800 Exp 0] 284 msec > 59.145.0.181 [MPLS: Label 1668 Exp 0] 260 msec > 2 202.56.223.50 [MPLS: Label 308480 Exp 0] 256 msec 256 msec > 202.56.223.205 [MPLS: Label 311696 Exp 0] 276 msec > 3 182.79.220.198 [MPLS: Label 1795 Exp 0] 276 msec 276 msec > 182.79.252.161 [MPLS: Label 1795 Exp 0] 272 msec > 4 > AES-Static-122.36.144.59.airtel.in<http://aes-static-122.36.144.59.airtel.in/> > (59.144.36.122) > 272 msec 272 msec 288 msec > 5 he.net.coresite.com (206.223.143.122) 288 msec 292 msec 272 msec > 6 10gigabitethernet2-1.core1.lax1.he.net (72.52.92.121) [AS 6939] 272 > msec 276 msec 288 msec > 7 pacnet.10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.lax1.he.net (216.218.223.206) [AS > 6939] 288 msec 288 msec 272 msec > 8 te0-1-0-0.wr1.nrt0.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.89) [AS 10026] 264 msec > 264 msec 284 msec > 9 te0-0-4-0.wr2.nrt0.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.14) [AS 10026] [MPLS: > Label 16191 Exp 0] 288 msec 292 msec 276 msec > 10 te0-0-0-0.wr2.osa0.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.2) [AS 10026] [MPLS: > Label 16002 Exp 0] 276 msec 300 msec 292 msec > 11 te0-0-4-0.wr1.osa0.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.21) [AS 10026] 292 msec > 292 msec 276 msec > 12 te0-1-0-0.wr1.hkg0.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.57) [AS 10026] 272 msec > 268 msec 288 msec > 13 ge-4-1-0-0.cr4.hkg3.asianetcom.net (61.14.157.142) [AS 10026] 284 > msec 288 msec 264 msec > 14 te3-2.gw1.hkg4.asianetcom.net (202.147.16.198) [AS 10026] 336 msec > 264 msec 284 msec > 15 > VNB-0025.gw1.hkg4.asianetcom.net<http://vnb-0025.gw1.hkg4.asianetcom.net/> > (203.192.137.78) > [AS 10026] 284 msec 288 msec 268 msec > 16 * * * > > > > Same problem applies on J gTLD server too. It might be having an instance > in India but since no link to local ISPs or niXi...everyone hears J root in > Hong Kong. > > > > Anyone from Verisign or Indian ISPs here for onlist or offlist comments? > > Again, I apologize for any wrong conclusions. I am still learning all this > stuff. Please excuse my ignorance and correct me if you find something. > > > Thanks > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Peter Losher <plos...@isc.org> wrote: > >> On Mar 11, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Anurag Bhatia wrote: >> >> > Btw coming back to original question - can you put some light on gTLDs >> in India? Are there any instances? Just to clarify - with gTLD I am >> refering to .com/net/org primarily. >> >> You would have to ask Verisign as operators of the com/net gTLD servers >> and Afilias for .org about their DNS deployments. I can only speak for ISC >> as we operate F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. >> >> Best Wishes - Peter >> -- >> [ plos...@isc.org | Senior Operations Architect | ISC | PGP E8048D08 ] >> >> > > > -- > > Anurag Bhatia > anuragbhatia.com > or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected > network! > > Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> > Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com > > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk mailing list > apnic-t...@lists.apnic.net > http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk > > > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected network! Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com