[9675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uDNS Root Name Servers Taking Shape - on a couple ISDN lines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Rishaw)
Thu May 29 23:28:45 1997
To: hostmaster@starfire.douglas.ma.us (Ron Kimball)
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: edns-discuss@MCS.Net, newdom@ar.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <33901b87.1716516@smtp.ma.ultranet.com> from Ron Kimball at "May 30, 97 00:31:58 am"
From: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw)
Reply-To: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net
uDNS mail. Hit D now.
> On Thu, 29 May 1997 18:03:13 -0500, Karl wrote:
>
> >Approximate bandwidth from the core to this point on the network
> >from us at this point in time: 34.56kbps, or a good modem line :-)
>
> Gee, it's a T1 from here, must be a problem on your end. <grin>
>
> >THIS NAMESERVER IS RUNNING WITH RECURSION ENABLED
>
> Yup, until next week when we get the new box up.
Why? Run out of pee-cee's for your little isp? Or do you have to
wait until your buddy gets hired at his new ISP so you can move the
quake server?
> >**** NOTICE:
> >THIS NAMESERVER IS RUNNING WITH RECURSION
>
> Hmm... the name.boot file has it set off. I'll check it out.
Somehow I fear putting my DNS in the hands of someone who says "Hmm..."
over a named.boot file.
> Seriously, our schedule calls for 5 dedicated, non-recursive servers
> up by next week this time, with T1 of better connectivity.
"Oh, we'll have quadruple this Real Soon Now(tm). We decided that it was
a Good Thing to release this project with a crappy server and crappy links..
but honest.. we're fixing it!"
> We plan
> full RFC2010 by the time we reach 5% visibility.
So.. never, right?
I dont get it. Why wait until later to do things _right_?
..jgkr
