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Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
Date:
Wed, 5 May 1999 20:30:49 -0700 (PDT)
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<19990506115454U.kato@nezu.wide.ad.jp> from "Akira Kato" at May 06, 1999 11:54:54 AM
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Re: Experiments in multi-placed root servers
> > > As far as I know, there was a similar short discussion in the IEPG > meeting held in Dec, 1996. Somebody proposed to use the same IP > address to newly delegating root DNS servers (the targets of the > discussion was 'K' and 'M'). Somebody else was against this idea > because if something wrong happens, it might be difficult to identify > which server has the problem unless the routing is very stable. And we -know- that routing is stable. > If there were a field such as "server ID" in the DNS response packets, > sharing a single IP address among several servers might made sense. that leads to other problems... :) > > -- Akira Kato, WIDE Project > -- --bill