[34091] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Jan 27 23:40:25 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Jay R. Ashworth'" <jra@baylink.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:38:33 -0800
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> From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 6:44 PM
> 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?
Well, yes.
