[102335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: named.root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Freedman)
Tue Feb 5 09:37:33 2008
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:31:09 +0000
From: David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
CC: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>, ipv6-ops@lists.cluenet.de,
nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080205125232.GA17658@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Well gosh, and there was me thinking that both would work together to
make such a change :)
And there is http://www.root-servers.org/ suggesting
"
The root hints file (named.cache, root.ca, root.hints, ...) can be
obtained via IANA's page for popular links (http://www.iana.org/popular.htm)
"
which in turn points to [www|ftp].internic.net
....
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:25:52PM +0000,
> David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net> wrote
> a message of 114 lines which said:
>
>> Shame its not made it to HTTP yet:
>
> Nothing to do with the protocol but with the organization which
> manages the server:
>
>> $ lynx --source http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root | grep AAAA
>
> www.internic.net is managed by ICANN.
>
>> $ lynx --source ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root | grep "last update"
>
> rs.internic.net is managed by Verisign.
>
