Root Servers?

[Chip Paswater]

Normally, when I'm setting up a new DNS server, I use dig (no args) to fetch the list
of root servers.

So, while investigating a DNS problem today with our mail server, I did the
same:

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19886
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       372319  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       372319  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     458719  IN      A       198.41.0.10
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     458719  IN      A       193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     458719  IN      A       198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     458719  IN      A       202.12.27.33

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.1#53(10.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 28 11:43:51 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 292


Only 4 root servers are showing up...  Does this mean that only 4 out of 13
are functioning today?  Please enlighten me