Re: [tlug] What would happen to the Internet if the US fell off the map

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Josh Glover wrote:

> DNS would get crushed at first as many (most?) of the root servers are
> in the US....

According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver>:

    ...most of the physical, rather than nominal, root servers are now
    outside the United States.

While seven of the 13 root nameservers are single servers or
load-balanced clusters located in the US, the rest are using anycast,
and are distributed worldwide. There's a map on that link.

cjs
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