[6280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: First? TRUE Root Name Server On Line
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Sun Nov 24 07:18:02 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:57:09 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01BBD948.99461400@webster.unety.net>
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Jim Fleming wrote:
> When history is made on the Internet, it is important to briefly pause
> to recognize the event, and then move forward. Recently, one of the
> first TRUE Root Name Servers was put into service by John Palmer
> of The American Global Network, Inc. (AGN.NET)
Yeah, right.
When I asked 199.5.157.5 about records for ".", it returned an
"authoritative" answer containing the following bogus information:
;; ANSWERS:
. 86400 SOA MX.ALTERNIC.NET. ROOT.ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET. (
1996110715 ; serial
10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
900 ; retry (15 mins)
604800 ; expire (7 days)
86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
. 518400 NS ALTER.NIC.
. 518400 NS MX.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ROOT-NS.MCS.NET.
. 518400 NS TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET.
;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
. 518400 NS ALTER.NIC.
. 518400 NS MX.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ROOT-NS.MCS.NET.
. 518400 NS TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET.
;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
ALTER.NIC. 86400 A 204.94.42.5
MX.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 204.94.42.1
ROOT-NS.MCS.NET. 518400 A 192.160.127.86
TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 207.107.232.106
ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 204.94.42.2
Astute readers will notice that the list of alleged root servers in the
answer from 199.5.157.5 does not include 199.5.157.5 itself. Astute
readers will further notice that the Internet's real root servers
a.root-servers.net, b.root-servers.net, etc., are not mentioned in the
answer from the bogus "root server" 199.5.157.5.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
