[4231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Sep 9 15:14:59 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:04:34 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no, randy@PSG.COM
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, namedroppers@internic.net, nanog@merit.edu
>I will echo Randy's sentiment here: is there a technical reason
>why the root name servers need special "provider-independent"
>addresses, or is this a solution looking for a problem?
Root name servers is the only legitimate use for fixed IP
addresses.
How about allocating some "good sounding" IP addresses for them,
(like 1.0.0.x/32) and hard-wiring them into resolver code? Would
save quite a lot of configuration headaches for newbies.
--vadim
