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Re: URGENT! Root Servers not updated

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Oppedahl)
Thu Jul 3 13:25:56 1997

Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:14:39 -0600
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
From: Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>
Cc: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
        Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>

At 12:31 PM 07/03/97 -0400, Gordon Cook wrote:
>has the basic problem that paul vixie complained about been solved?
>
>I called a knowledgable source last night.  That person was aware of the
>change and said that the proper IANA people had been informed in advance
>and had (he thought) not disagreed. the change he believed was not for any
>of the reasons that paul feared.

So there is some *good* reason why the root level servers of the Internet
should be out of synch with each other, slightly over half of them carrying
data that is out of date by almost a week?  Did your source happen to
address this issue?





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