F means filtered ?

Tue Feb 18 00:02:02 UTC 1997

Jim Fleming writes:
> On Monday, February 17, 1997 2:27 PM, Perry E. Metzger[SMTP:perry at piermont.co
m] wrote:
> @ 
> @ Jim Fleming writes:
> @ > Someone claimed that they could not access the public
> @ > Root Name Server operated by Paul Vixie and supported
> @ > by the U.S. Government and the National Science Foundation
> @ 
> @ No one claimed that but you.
> 
> Here is the original mail....from matthew kaufman

Creative editing of your original claim that Paul Vixie was
"filtering" access to the name servers.

Of course there are times where you can't reach one nameserver or
another. Connections between any two points on the network are not
100% reliable. How you could twist this into the notion that 
Paul Vixie was filtering connections in the network is probably a
question more for your psychiatrist than for you.

Perry

> 
> "Root nameserver F is not reachable from my network."
> 
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> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:47:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: matthew at scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
> Message-Id: <199702140347.TAA02409 at scruz.net>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: root servers more debug data
> Sender: owner-nanog at merit.edu
> Status: O
> 
> 
> 
> At present I am able to reach root nameservers A, B, C, D, E, G, I
> and receive valid replies to a name request.
> 
> Root nameserver F is not reachable from my network.
> 
> Root nameserver H is responding to all my requests with the
>  4-bit Response Code field set to the value 0x03 ("Name error")
> 
> This is confusing a fair number of things.

> -matthew kaufman
>  matthew at scruz.net
> 
> 
> ps. this is clearly the wrong list for this, but the only one I am
>  on and successfully receiving mail from.
> 
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> The rest of your message has been deleted and
> noted for future reference.
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation
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