On Monday, February 17, 1997 2:27 PM, Perry E. Metzger[SMTP:perry@piermont.com] wrote: @ @ Jim Fleming writes: @ > Someone claimed that they could not access the public @ > Root Name Server operated by Paul Vixie and supported @ > by the U.S. Government and the National Science Foundation @ @ No one claimed that but you. Here is the original mail....from matthew kaufman "Root nameserver F is not reachable from my network." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:47:28 -0800 (PST) From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman) Message-Id: <199702140347.TAA02409@scruz.net> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: root servers more debug data Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Status: O At present I am able to reach root nameservers A, B, C, D, E, G, I and receive valid replies to a name request. Root nameserver F is not reachable from my network. Root nameserver H is responding to all my requests with the 4-bit Response Code field set to the value 0x03 ("Name error") This is confusing a fair number of things. -matthew kaufman matthew@scruz.net ps. this is clearly the wrong list for this, but the only one I am on and successfully receiving mail from. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The rest of your message has been deleted and noted for future reference. -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)