resolving the ip address for the root servers

[Bill Manning]

% 
% In article <200005310120.SAA16016 at zed.isi.edu>,
% Bill Manning  <bmanning at ISI.EDU> wrote:
% > Note that this particular "hints" file is out of date.
% > The TTLs were adjusted several years ago and four new
% > root servers were added.
% 
% But since named only uses the hints file for a few minutes, it doesn't
% really matter.  One of the first things it does is get the current list
% from one of the root servers in the list.
% 
% -- 
% Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
% Genuity, Burlington, MA


True, based on the presumption that these nine don't change their IP's,
that they are all equally "reachable", that folks are running reasonably
current code and that the Internet "diameter" is not growing.


-- 
--bill