[52938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing root server down code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Oct 23 16:18:34 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:16:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Peter Salus <peter@matrix.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200210232002.g9NK2fH27043@mercury.aus.us.mids.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Two. SRI-NIC and ISI-B.
A third root server ISI-F existed, but on June 12 1985 was
changed to a "test" server. All were located in California.
All were DECSystem-20/TOPS-20 mainframes running JEEVES.
On October 31, 1985 (Halloween) the first BIND root server was
announced at BRL-AOS (US east coast).
http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Peter Salus wrote:
> I was thinking. If the "servers" went down on
> 28 June 1985, how many were there? Host table
> #485 (October 1985) lists 1961 hosts.