[46560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Thu Apr 4 06:44:16 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
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To: matt@deliver3.com (Matt Levine)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:43:17 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BEEPLMELPMPANJHCBHJEMEGFHFAA.matt@deliver3.com> from "Matt Levine" at Apr 04, 2002 12:50:39 AM
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long before there were specific gtld-servers. I first
saw this type of response in 1987. (I was not looking
before then... :)
>
> When did this start?
>
>
> > dig uunet.com @a.gtld-servers.net
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> uunet.com @a.gtld-servers.net
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 4
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; uunet.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> uunet.com. 2D IN NS NS.UU.NET.
> uunet.com. 2D IN NS UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.com.
> uunet.com. 2D IN NS UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> NS.UU.NET. 2D IN A 137.39.1.3
> UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.com. 2D IN A 16.1.0.18
> UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.com. 2D IN A 204.123.2.18
> UUCP-GW-2.PA.DEC.com. 2D IN A 16.1.0.19
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Matt
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