[34106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sun Jan 28 04:00:31 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland Meyer)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:50:30 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: joshua@roughtrade.net ('Joshua Goodall'),
rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland Meyer), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039B9B@condor.mhsc.com> from "Roeland Meyer" at Jan 27, 2001 10:35:06 AM
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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.
>
Perhaps you are using the term "root servers" in a different
manner than I am used to. For me:
"Root Server" = a DNS server for the zone "." in the Internet.
What do you mean by "root servers at ALL levels, not just the root."
That construction just does not parse.
--bill
