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jaseemabid on Jan 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers

Great post! I find it interesting that all root servers are located in United States. Should some of them be elsewhere for redundancy?

Godel_unicode on Jan 11, 2022 [–]

They're definitely not, that's just what their IP lookup would have you believe. There are in fact tons of root servers located all over the world leveraging anycast.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-anycast-dns/

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/dns-root-server-trans...

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