[115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sun Jul 30 14:38:49 1995
To: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, postel@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jul 1995 09:59:54 PDT."
<199507301659.JAA07977@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:35:17 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
[vixie]
> I would. Elise and her team are experts at what they do, but running a root
> name server is not quite the same thing.
[delong]
> That is quite true. However, I have set up a couple of "un-official" root
> name servers for clients of mine who had HEAVY lookup traffic. It has worked
> quite well, and didn't seem substantially different from running an ISP
> nameserver that was secondary for a whole bunch of customer domains.
true -- it wouldn't have been. running a server that's in the root delegation
is a bit different. i'm not saying that it takes some kind of arcane secret
handshake -- but it does rather seem to me that elise's team has their hands
full. if i hear otherwise from elise herself, then i will suggest to the IANA
that RSs at XPs be given priority for new root servers.
