Hello, There has been some routing glitch in the F root server instance running in Chennai, India by niXi AS 24049. Govt. owned BSNL AS9829 routers are not hearing any BGP announcements and thus F root does not works at all on BSNL. anurag@laptop ~ $ traceroute f.root-servers.net -A traceroute to f.root-servers.net (192.5.5.241), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) [AS8151/AS28513] 1.552 ms 2.040 ms * 2 117.207.48.1 (117.207.48.1) [AS9829] 26.010 ms 28.433 ms 31.136 ms 3 218.248.173.42 (218.248.173.42) [AS9829] 34.497 ms 35.968 ms 38.372 ms 4 218.248.250.86 (218.248.250.86) [AS9829] 91.784 ms 94.430 ms 96.794 ms 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * I have been hosting RIPE Probe #1032 and here is F Root connectivity data from proble: [image: Inline image 1] As we can see root server is not accessible at all from Jan and even in Nov, Dec last year it was available with over 300ms latency which indicates network was not using Chennai anycast node since latency between this test probe placed in Haryana (North India) and Chennai (South India) should be around 70ms. Thanks. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected network! Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com -- This message has been scanned by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. For more information about data security please visit http://www.kaspersky.com and http://www.viruslist.com