root servers

[Pete Ehlke]

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