News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Wed Sep 17 04:41:01 UTC 2003

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