root servers
Pete Ehlke
pde at ehlke.net
Wed Dec 11 22:22:44 UTC 2002
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:01:31PM +0000, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
>
> Bill Manning <bmanning at isi.edu> wrote:
>
> > for the late 1980s and through 1996, there were nine (9) root servers.
> > in 1996, the root-servers were re-named, allowing the addition of four (=
> 4)
> > more servers, giving us the current number of thirteen (13). The reason
> > for this is that a priming query needs to fit within a single unfragment=
> ed
> > UDP packet.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Do you happen to have records of which 9, their locations and
> which organisations running them ?
>
http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html
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