@dangoodin @joeklein Question: what does the agreement between ICANN/IANA and Cogent look like for their custodianship of c.root-servers.net? What kind of performance guarantees is Cogent supposed to make, and what kind of penalties are they subject to for non-compliance.

And it sounds like this issue was tumbled to by accident. Are there any major monitors of root servers (especially anycast?) out there?

Hoo boy, this is a lot to unpack. (fin)