[7659] in North American Network Operators' Group
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