On 2/3/2011 8:20 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 03/02/2011 14:15, Jack Bates wrote:
Is this why the root isn't just using well-known?
No - that's pretty much the only situation where you have a technical requirement to hardcode IP address, and there's basically no way of getting around it.
Besides, it's completely different to having a requirement that all locally connected machines should by default send all of their DNS requests to a specific address. You're talking about a situation which affects only DNS resolvers. I'm talking about something which affects all end-user nodes in the world. i.e. much messier problem on a completely different scale.
You missed my pointed. Root servers are hard coded, but they aren't using a well known anycast address. Jack