[62262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Wed Sep 17 03:27:10 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:26:36 +0200
From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: John Brown <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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John Brown <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On 17.09 00:50, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, John Brown wrote:
> > not all the *root-servers* carry .arpa or in-addr.arpa
> >
> > J (one of verisigns) does not carry this zone, based
> > on their own internal decision.....
>
> Actually, I thought that was one of Jon Postel's decisions when
> they were experimenting with creating "root-only" root servers.
Correct.
> Unfortunately, the progress on that front didn't continue after
> the DNS wars started.
Progress has continued albeit so slowly as to resemble stagnation.
Daniel