[9052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eDNS - Temporary Freeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun May 4 00:00:23 1997
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 22:38:39 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
To: Dwight Ernest <Dwight@Significant.COM>
Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>, Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'Multiple recipients of list DOMAIN-POLICY'" <DOMAIN-POLICY@lists.internic.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970503225024.00e8e2fc@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from Dwight Ernest on Sat, May 03, 1997 at 10:50:27PM -0400
On Sat, May 03, 1997 at 10:50:27PM -0400, Dwight Ernest wrote:
> At 08:37 PM 5/3/97 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >On Sat, May 03, 1997 at 04:42:51PM -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> >> Hi. I'm a root name server operator.
>
> [snip]
>
> Paul operates f.root-servers.net.
>
> >>I take my root zone from the IANA. Not NSI and especially not from
> stargate 0.
> >
> >Really?
> >
> >Explain this trace please.
>
> [snip]
>
> >Nice try.
>
> What's your point?
>
> generic-prompt % traceroute f.root-servers.net.
> traceroute to f.root-servers.net (192.5.5.241), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1 ult-mbo-1-fe0.mbo.ma.ultra.net (199.232.56.65) 1 ms 1 ms 0 ms
> 2 904.Hssi4-0.GW2.BOS1.ALTER.NET (137.39.135.213) 3 ms 4 ms 4 ms
> 3 422.atm11-0.cr2.bos1.alter.net (137.39.13.250) 52 ms 255 ms 5 ms
> 4 103.Hssi12-0.CR2.PAO1.Alter.Net (137.39.71.169) 84 ms 93 ms 84 ms
> 5 312.atm2-0.br1.pao1.alter.net (137.39.13.145) 89 ms 86 ms 97 ms
> 6 fw.bryant.vix.com (198.32.176.3) 86 ms 91 ms 84 ms
> 7 f.root-servers.net (192.5.5.241) 94 ms 86 ms 89 ms
>
That Mr. Vixie's server loads from a.root-servers.net, which is controlled
by NSI.
If NSI makes changes in that zone, Mr. Vixie's server will reflect them.
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