[afnog] Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers DNS by Running One on Loopback

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:14:21AM +0200,
 Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> >Needless to say, there is reasonable peering of root name servers
> >globally, including within Africa.
> 
> yes, but the situation can always be made better.

Also, having a root name server instance in the capital of the country
does not help if you're in a small and distant city, or simply if your
network is poorly connected.