[dns-operations] After Google Mail, Google Docs, Google Wave... Google DNS

[Rick Jones]

Noel Butler wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:43 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
>>[rtts to 8.8.8.8 snipped]
>>
>>I have to wonder if the issue with rtts to the Google DNS servers is more a 
>>bootstrap thing.  Afterall, they do have data centers world wide right? 
>>Wouldn't it make sense to start the deployment in one place, wring it out a bit, 
>>and then spread it out?
>>
>>
> 
> It would make sense, but we know that's not how it works.

Did the root servers start-out "fully" geographically distributed or did that 
evolve over time?

rick jones