root name servers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7mi9ig$28c at llama.swcp.com>, Bill Larson <wllarso at swcp.com> wrote:
>Prior to the renaming of the root servers to [a-z].root-servers.net,
>these machines had an actual names.  You could find an
>"ns.internic.net", "ns1.isi.edu", "ns.nasa.gov", etc.  Recognizing
>that these names could be misleading, it would give you a hint
>about who was running what.  If fact, if was nice to know that
>the U.S. Army was protecting the operation of the Internet with
>"aos.arl.army.mil" as one of the root name servers!

That information was retained in comments in the named.root file.  When
they renamed them, they added comments like "formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET".

The servers that have been added since then have comments saying who runs
them.

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