The SWAMP

Vadim Antonov avg at quake.net
Mon Sep 9 19:04:34 UTC 1996


>I will echo Randy's sentiment here: is there a technical reason
>why the root name servers need special "provider-independent"
>addresses, or is this a solution looking for a problem?

Root name servers is the only legitimate use for fixed IP
addresses.

How about allocating some "good sounding" IP addresses for them,
(like 1.0.0.x/32) and hard-wiring them into resolver code?  Would
save quite a lot of configuration headaches for newbies.

--vadim





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