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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:30:01AM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > dsr wrote: > | and the most useful external nameserver, 4.2.2.1. > > Well, now; that depends on just where you are. From my home > machine, 4.2.2.1 works ok, but it has a response time > that's typically around 90-100 ms (although unless they've > moved it, it's only a couple miles from here physically). I > know of a couple of MIT nameservers that give me 10-20 ms > response times, although they're physically maybe 12 miles > away. But for whatever reasons, the MIT nameservers are > only 6 hops from me while 4.2.2.1 is 13 hops. Compared to a random nameserver, 4.2.2.1 will win, on average. Genuity runs it via an RFC1546 multiple advertisement hack. -dsr-
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