On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:20:29AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
dns techs in the industry. nothing that's happening with dot-com or dot-net
agreed.
should be considered relevant to verisign's *root* servers in any way. the *root* servers do not carry dot-com or dot-net, they just carry "." itself, and arpa, and in-addr.arpa, and in some cases root-servers.net.
not all the *root-servers* carry .arpa or in-addr.arpa J (one of verisigns) does not carry this zone, based on their own internal decision..... seems to be missing here........ abq-www-02# dig @f.root-servers.net arpa. ns +nocomment ; *** Invalid option: nocomment ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @f.root-servers.net arpa. ns ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 12 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; arpa, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: arpa. 6D IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa. 6D IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 198.41.0.4 B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.9.0.107 C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.33.4.12 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.8.10.90 E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.203.230.10 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.5.5.241 G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.112.36.4 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.63.2.53 I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.36.148.17 K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 193.0.14.129 L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 198.32.64.12 M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 202.12.27.33
-- Paul Vixie