[84042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What happened to root-server serial number?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Sep 2 14:35:33 2005
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:35:00 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17176.38138.420062.841652@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:07:54AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > why do you care?
>
> because root server status is one measure of internet
> infrastructure status and stability.
yes it is... and having hundreds/thousands of
folks checking has its own set of issues.
I note that Peter was kind enough to show that
all the root servers he was able to reach - AGREED -
on the serial number they were using.
> why do you want to imply that caring that a root
> server does not respond is inappropriate?
does not respond from where? after all,
one does not have to reach -all- the root servers.
Getting to one is sufficent.
that said, Peter has his own "root-servers" and so
my question to him was why he should care about other
folks root servers.
>
> randy
