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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 1997 12:05:57 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        rb@gid.co.uk
Cc:        ortmann@sparc.isl.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS for freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <11016.865764357@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:25:39 %2B0100"
References:  <l03020901afc0279ec279@[194.32.164.2]>

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> At 17:43 +0100 7/6/97, Daniel Ortmann wrote [in -current]:
> >I ran a host command getting freebsd.org sites and auto-built a
> >set of [ -f src-cur.2909.gz ] || fetch commands with it, thinking
> >that this would be an efficient way to find it.  (It didn't find it.)
> >
> >The odd thing that I discovered that a large number of the foreign
> >freebsd addresses could not be found.
> >
> >Why is that?  Is there a pervasive problem with DNS's?
> 
> I have suspected this for a while, but I'm not really sure why. Possibly
> having a couple of secondaries for freebsd.org outside of N America would
> help.

There is already one freebsd.org name server outside the US: ns.gnome.co.uk.
Unfortunately it is not listed in the delegation from .org, and thus doesn't
really help much.

If there is any interest, I'd be happy to run a secondary for freebsd.org
at snipp.uninett.no. This is a very stable and well-connected host (it has
a minimum of 34 Mbit/s all the way from its position in Oslo, Norway to the
US).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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