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RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Jan 27 13:37:16 2001

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To: 'Joshua Goodall' <joshua@roughtrade.net>,
	Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:35:06 -0800
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> > More interestingly, how many root servers allow recursive lookup?
> 
> a quick looping probe shows that none of them do, nor the gTLD servers
> (phew!) although L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET 
> are unreachable
> from my view. Preparing an accurate list of all TLD servers 
> glued in the
> root zone will take a little longer.

I was taking about root servers at ALL levels, not just the root.


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