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Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed Feb 19 01:50:13 1997

To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:46:30 PST."
             <Pine.LNX.3.95.970218154347.26747E-100000@wacky.eit.com> 
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:47:42 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>

> Thats fair, I guess.  Perhaps some of those $100 in fees for unused
> domains could be used to buy more RAM for root server operators.

This has in fact been done.  NSI sent me a replacement for F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET:

MESSAGE                                 Alpha boot: available memory from 
                                         _0xe46000 to 0x1fffe000 
                                        Digital UNIX V4.0B  (Rev. 564); Mon 
                                         _Dec 23 14:52:07 PST 1996  
                                        physical memory = 512.00 megabytes. 
                                        available memory = 497.74 megabytes. 
                                        using 1958 buffers containing 15.29 
                                         _megabytes of memory 
                                        AlphaStation 255/300 system 
                                        DECchip 21071  

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