FW: First? TRUE Root Name Server On Line
Alan Barrett
apb at iafrica.com
Sun Nov 24 11:57:09 UTC 1996
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Jim Fleming wrote:
> When history is made on the Internet, it is important to briefly pause
> to recognize the event, and then move forward. Recently, one of the
> first TRUE Root Name Servers was put into service by John Palmer
> of The American Global Network, Inc. (AGN.NET)
Yeah, right.
When I asked 199.5.157.5 about records for ".", it returned an
"authoritative" answer containing the following bogus information:
;; ANSWERS:
. 86400 SOA MX.ALTERNIC.NET. ROOT.ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET. (
1996110715 ; serial
10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
900 ; retry (15 mins)
604800 ; expire (7 days)
86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
. 518400 NS ALTER.NIC.
. 518400 NS MX.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ROOT-NS.MCS.NET.
. 518400 NS TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET.
;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
. 518400 NS ALTER.NIC.
. 518400 NS MX.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ROOT-NS.MCS.NET.
. 518400 NS TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET.
. 518400 NS ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET.
;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
ALTER.NIC. 86400 A 204.94.42.5
MX.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 204.94.42.1
ROOT-NS.MCS.NET. 518400 A 192.160.127.86
TORONTO.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 207.107.232.106
ARAGORN.ALTERNIC.NET. 86400 A 204.94.42.2
Astute readers will notice that the list of alleged root servers in the
answer from 199.5.157.5 does not include 199.5.157.5 itself. Astute
readers will further notice that the Internet's real root servers
a.root-servers.net, b.root-servers.net, etc., are not mentioned in the
answer from the bogus "root server" 199.5.157.5.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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