[121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sun Jul 30 23:58:45 1995
To: nanog@merit.edu, postel@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:25:25 PDT."
<199507310325.AA05460@zephyr.isi.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 20:53:33 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> I think there may be a bit of confusion here. There is a plan to compress
> the root cache, making it appear to be a single, multi-homed machine.
Nope. Mr. IANA wanted it to appear to be different machines. We're just
moving them all into a single domain and giving them short base names. This
will result in nearly the same maximum number of root servers as your original
proposal.
