[9508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top Level Domain Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri May 23 18:05:24 1997
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: carl@oppedahl.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: howland@conxion.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970523153257.365f61c6@popserver.panix.com> from "Carl Oppedahl" at May 23, 97 03:35:15 pm
> >After reading the commentaries about top level domain servers
> >and their reality or mythical status, I went on a search of a
> >list of the present "." and top-level servers.
> <http://www.patents.com/nsi/roots.sht>
This is nice, but it's not canonical.
When someone asks a question like this, please give the canonical answer.
--jhawk
[all-purpose-gunk!jhawk] /etc/namedb> head -20 named.root
; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>"
; configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
;
; This file is made available by InterNIC registration services
; under anonymous FTP as
; file /domain/named.root
; on server FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET
; -OR- under Gopher at RS.INTERNIC.NET
; under menu InterNIC Registration Services (NSI)
; submenu InterNIC Registration Archives
; file named.root
;
; last update: Nov 8, 1995
; related version of root zone: 1995110800
;
;
; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET
;
