[Cialug] Root servers

[Barry Von Ahsen]

on debian stable, in bind9, a hint file is at /usr/share/dns/root.hints, which also references https://www.internic.net/domain/named.cache

you could then whois the A records, but I'm guessing these orgs have huge class A net blocks that point to a corporate office.  I'd also hope that the servers are clustered and VIP-ed and physically distributed

https://root-servers.org/ seems to confirm that, the D root server by the U of Maryland looks to be about 162 distributed servers.  You can download a yaml file that has a bit individual server info, including lat/long data (but which seems to be city-center)

from there, traceroute is probably your friend :)


-barry




> On Aug 26, 2021, at 8:50 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If I wanted to..... *root around*.... in the domain name system's root
> servers, where would I do that? Specifically, I'm just curious to know
> where, physically, they are. I guess, like, I'd query the root server, find
> out its IPs, then do some kind of network magic to locate the network its
> on and that would tell me where it is?
> 
> --
> Todd
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