Re: Experiments in multi-placed root servers

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

At 08:30 PM 05/05/99 -0700, Bill Manning wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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... :)

I recall the same comment at the time in the IEPG - that relying on the
stability of the routing system for the coherent operation of the DNS Root
Servers was very ill-advised.



Geoff