On 17-May-2006, at 10:45, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
well Peter, ONE root server operator has that practice. Others have different practices regarding anycast.
Actually, it looks to me like all thirteen root servers answer "HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT" queries (J might check for trailing dots, maybe ;-) and also that F and C share a strikingly similar naming scheme. [octopus:~]% for n in a b c d e f g h i j k l m; do for> echo -n "trying ${n}... " for> dig @${n}.root-servers.net hostname.bind chaos txt +short for> done trying a... "ns6-aroot" trying b... "b3" trying c... "ord1a.c.root-servers.org" trying d... "d-root.net.umd.edu" trying e... "e4.arc.nasa.gov" trying f... "yyz1b.f.root-servers.org" trying g... "g.root-servers.net" trying h... "H1" trying i... "s1.was" trying j... "jns1-kr.j.root-servers.net.j.root-servers.net" trying k... "k2.nap" trying l... "l1.l.root-servers.org" trying m... "M-SFO-1" [octopus:~]% Joe