root name servers

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jul 14 18:50:45 UTC 1999



Bill Larson wrote:
> 
> 
> Prior to the renaming of the root servers to [a-z].root-servers.net,
> these machines had an actual names.  You could find an
> "ns.internic.net", "ns1.isi.edu", "ns.nasa.gov", etc.  Recognizing
> that these names could be misleading, it would give you a hint
> about who was running what.  If fact, if was nice to know that
> the U.S. Army was protecting the operation of the Internet with
> "aos.arl.army.mil" as one of the root name servers!
> 
> Bill Larson (wllarso at swcp.com)

Just a note. Putting all the machines in the same domain
root-servers.net, enables you to put more of them into the packet.

Michael Voight


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