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-There are 13 root name servers ; they all behave identically. Most are in North America although there are also servers in Japan and London.
+There are 13 root name servers ; they all behave identically. Most are in North America although there are also servers in Japan and London. One of them (f.root-servers.net) is replicated in many places around the world, including at [APE] in NewZealand for domestic sites
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All they do is respond to [DNS] queries by replying with the address of a nameserver for the top level domain for that query.
If you query a root name server with "www.example.com", it will reply with the address of one of the name servers for the ".com" top level domain.
