[3490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The root nameservers will be replaced August 1st
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Jul 17 20:29:18 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: schnell@gsd.sprint.com (Steven Schnell)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: michael@memra.com, alan@gi.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960717172721.5570C-100000@cde1.gsd.sprint.com> from "Steven Schnell" at Jul 17, 96 05:34:19 pm
> You are correct in stating that servers are collocated at the exchange
> points. However, their collocation and their associated application
> (route database server) are sanctioned by the NSF as part of NSF
> Solicitation 93-52. It would be a grievous error to assume that any NAP
> operator would want to take on the responsibilities of securing a DNS
> root server, ensure its availability and take the associated hits.
>
> Steve
Again, speaking hypothetically, I wasn't talking about having the NAP
operator take responsibility. But if someone wanted to get co-lo space
and pay the ethernet or fddi or atm or ... charge and maintain the machine,
what issues would there be?
Well, you obviously wouldn't let someone just put a web server on the
NAP IP space, since most everyone in the world has a route to that
block (usually a /24)...
So probably the "community" or the exchange point operator would have
to feel comfortable that the machine being put at the exchange point
was of a community service.
Avi
