I agree, I thought Ottawa had an anycast node from the ISC (f) root server...<br><br>[root@wpgnetsvc02 ~]# traceroute <a href="http://f.root-servers.net">f.root-servers.net</a><br>traceroute to <a href="http://f.root-servers.net">
f.root-servers.net</a> (<a href="http://192.5.5.241">192.5.5.241</a>), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets<br>...<br>&nbsp;9&nbsp; <a href="http://gw-isc.torontointernetxchange.net">gw-isc.torontointernetxchange.net</a> (<a href="http://198.32.245.23">
198.32.245.23</a>)&nbsp; 58.612 ms&nbsp; 22.422 ms&nbsp; 22.475 ms<br>10&nbsp; <a href="http://f.root-servers.net">f.root-servers.net</a> (<a href="http://192.5.5.241">192.5.5.241</a>)&nbsp; 23.249 ms&nbsp; 23.457 ms&nbsp; 23.758 ms<br><br>I don&#39;t know about any of the gTLDs (.com, .org), but the ccTLD for .ca is in Canada, I don&#39;t know the locations:
<br><br>[root@wpgnetsvc02 ~]# dig <a href="http://foo.ca">foo.ca</a> @<a href="http://f.root-servers.net">f.root-servers.net</a><br>...<br>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA04.CIRA.ca">
CA04.CIRA.ca</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA05.CIRA.ca">CA05.CIRA.ca</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA06.CIRA.ca">CA06.CIRA.ca</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<a href="http://NS-EXT.ISC.ORG">NS-EXT.ISC.ORG</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA01.CIRA.ca">CA01.CIRA.ca</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA02.CIRA.ca">
CA02.CIRA.ca</a>.<br>ca.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 172800&nbsp; IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://CA03.CIRA.ca">CA03.CIRA.ca</a>.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Lange</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:john.lange@open-it.ca">
john.lange@open-it.ca</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">According to that article; Canada has no root servers and no gTLD
<br>servers (except I assume gTLD .ca is here somewhere).<br><br>But I was certain that other article on a recent DNS DOS attack<br>mentioned that Ottawa had a server?<br><br>John<br><br><br>On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:39 -0500, Sean Walberg wrote:
<br>&gt; On 5/25/07, Sean Cody &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@tinfoilhat.ca">sean@tinfoilhat.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was also reading an article a long while ago that suggested<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; possibility of distributing upstream service information via
<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DHCP<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; which I found interesting.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Sounds like a job for DNS SRV records...<br>&gt;<br>&gt; (on a related note, the latest IP Protocol Journal has an excellent<br>&gt; article on the DNS root servers:&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://cisco.com/ipj">http://cisco.com/ipj</a>)<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Sean<br>&gt;<br>&gt; --<br>&gt; Sean Walberg &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/
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