[kictanet] in case of interest.. IP , rootservers, et al

[Michuki Mwangi]

Thank you Becky,


Rebecca Wanjiku wrote:
> 
> According to Verisign, Nairobi will soon have servers for .com and .net
> as well. In contrast, to use the .org domain they can again obtain
> addresses of the .org server from their local root server, but the
> lookup of the .org domain must go over a satellite link to Europe in
> order to be answered by a server in London. If the satellite link is up,
> this process adds half a second of latency to the query. If the
> satellite link is down, whatever local resource they are trying to
> connect to is out of reach.
> 

FYI the .COM and .NET Verisign Root servers are already operational at
the KIXP and serving DNS queries.

Regards,


-- 
Michuki Mwangi
KENIC