[34083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Jan 27 21:49:06 2001
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:43:39 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039B9B@condor.mhsc.com>; from Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:35:06AM -0800
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:35:06AM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > > 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.
I believe the phrasing Roeland may be looking for is "how many *zone*
servers (ie: authoritative servers, not customer resolvers) allow
recursive lookups", no, Roeland?
Cheers,
-- jra
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