At 01:54 PM 05/23/97 -0700, Curt Howland wrote:
After reading the commentaries about top level domain servers and their reality or mythical status, I went on a search of a list of the present "." and top-level servers.
Well, no luck. I searched the RFC's, resource pages, IETF.org and IANA.org pages, nada. I tried to RTFM, but couldn't find the FM.
I know the list exists, I saw it years ago and someone quoted such a list on this NANOG mailing list a day or two ago.
After reading the commentaries about top level domain servers and their reality or mythical status, I went on a search of a list of the present "." and top-level servers.
This is nice, but it's not canonical. When someone asks a question like this, please give the canonical answer. --jhawk [all-purpose-gunk!jhawk] /etc/namedb> head -20 named.root ; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to ; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers ; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>" ; configuration file of BIND domain name servers). ; ; This file is made available by InterNIC registration services ; under anonymous FTP as ; file /domain/named.root ; on server FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET ; -OR- under Gopher at RS.INTERNIC.NET ; under menu InterNIC Registration Services (NSI) ; submenu InterNIC Registration Archives ; file named.root ; ; last update: Nov 8, 1995 ; related version of root zone: 1995110800 ; ; ; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET ;
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