23 Oct
2002
23 Oct
'02
4:16 p.m.
Two. SRI-NIC and ISI-B. A third root server ISI-F existed, but on June 12 1985 was changed to a "test" server. All were located in California. All were DECSystem-20/TOPS-20 mainframes running JEEVES. On October 31, 1985 (Halloween) the first BIND root server was announced at BRL-AOS (US east coast). http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Peter Salus wrote:
I was thinking. If the "servers" went down on 28 June 1985, how many were there? Host table #485 (October 1985) lists 1961 hosts.