[Starlink] fiber IXPs in space

[David Lang]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Rodney W. Grimes via Starlink wrote:

>> I keep wondering when or if Nasa will find a way to move their DNS
>> root server "up there" . DNS data is not all that much... it is the
>> original distributed database...
>
> As others have pointed out a "root server" may not be very advantages,
> but what I think would be far better is to put up a couple of anycast
> recursive caching resolvers, aka 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 and almost anyone
> can do that, including starlink itself.

I believe that the root servers are all (or almost all) anycast nowdays.

David Lang