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

[Mark Tinka]

On 27/Nov/15 10:36, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> 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.

If the option is distant-city-from-capital is 30ms vs. 300ms from
distant-city to the northern hemisphere, then the former is not a
particularly bad position to be in.

Again, not against the idea. Just need to have folk think about it as
it's a hack that could go wrong if considered trivially.

Mark.