[3479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Jul 17 15:23:30 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:24:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: michael@memra.com, alan@gi.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607171821.AA01640@zed.isi.edu> from "bmanning@ISI.EDU" at Jul 17, 96 11:21:43 am
> > The XPs allow colo servers right now (the RAs). Such name servers could
> > be even run on the RA servers, though I doubt that'd happen :)
> >
> > Avi
>
> The RS machines are a special case and have had a number of
> "special" modifications to enhance security. In general,
> we've tried to keep them directly off the exchange media.
>
> --bill
Well, they can't "sniff" things if they're on switched ports...
What other "special" modifications had to be performed?
Avi
