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Re: RFC 2870's applicability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M. Brown)
Thu Aug 8 03:46:43 2002

Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:45:03 -0700
From: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208072147420.7845-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>; from ralph@istop.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:49:43PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


if .../named.boot  then {upgrade now}


BIND has a "goodness" chunk of code that will check connectivity
to the servers and pick a good one, it rechecks as a func of time.


is what I have in mine, seems to work well....

john brown
chagres technologies, inc

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       6D IN NS        I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D IN NS        M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.36.148.17
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.203.230.10
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.8.10.90
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.33.4.12
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.112.36.4
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.5.5.241
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.9.0.107
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.41.0.10
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    202.12.27.33



On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:49:43PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> 
> What would be useful in all this discussion would be if someone gives a
> list of "good" root servers to put in my named.boot.
> i.e. generally fast response time and no blocking prefixes
> 
> -Ralph
> 
> 

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