[21382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Nov 13 07:11:18 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: 13 Nov 1998 03:09:11 -0800
In-Reply-To: mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg's message of 12 Nov 1998 22:16:00 -0800
> is it just me, or are people confused by the references to
> f.root-servers.net (Paul Vixie's machine)
> and
> f.gtld-servers.net
>
> which was also reported to have problems? I only read
> "F server" in this article, but there are two of those, and
> only f.root-servers.net is operated by volunteers, f.gtld-servers.net
> is (AFAIK) operated by NSI...
three things.
1. there is definitely some confusion here. my f (root-servers.net) was
lame (which is not fatal to resolvers who query it). NSI's f (gtld-
servers.net) was insane (which was fatal to resolvers who queried it.)
2. my F is not a volunteer. f.root-servers.net is a funded activity of ISC.
if my F is "volunteer" than every nameserver everywhere is a "volunteer."
3. holtzman has some other axe he's grinding, this is all smokescreening.
if i could just stop worrying about that, i could start being insulted
by his wierd comments here and elsewhere.
--
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
