[cmNOG] Root Domain Name Server (DNS) is operated by an University

[jean-francis AHANDA]

Why university should go that way ?

learning ?

Start to own part of the internet ?

Something like a Y Root server operated by a group of African REN and
hosted with a minimum of 1 server per country is a bad plan ?

2017-04-23 19:26 GMT+01:00 Mukom Akong T. <mukom.tamon at gmail.com>:

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> On 22 April 2017 at 17:32, jean-francis AHANDA <
> jeanfrancis.ahanda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there any Root Domain Name Server (DNS) is operated by an University
>> in Africa ?
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> I doubt it.
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>> if not why ?
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> For a long time, reasons will be infrastructure? ... good multi-homed
> Internet connectivity using public IPv4 and IPv6, great cooling etc. It's
> just recently (last 3 - 5 years?) that universities in Africa are begining
> to get gigabit sized Internet connections.
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>> Is this something we can and should push ?
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> maybe .... might be a good idea for a REN to host it for all the
> universities on the REN. Why do you think it's important for a university
> to host it?
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> Mukom Akong T.
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