root-servers.net replaced?

[Nate Campi]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:00:16PM +0000, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
> 
> CJ <cozzmo1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It used to be that the 13 root servers where all X.root-servers.net 
> > (X is a variable to represent [a-m])
> > now I see that the ones that crop up (usually when using a bogus dig command)are 
> > X.gtld-servers.net 
> > I also ocasionally see
> > L2.NSTLD.COM a group of these are cropping up.
> 
> You might have a case of "cache pollutis" of your nameserver.
> Check your vendor and see what patches / configuration 
> you missed.

No, not at all. This fellow did a query for NS records (or ANY) on 
gtld-servers.net, and saw L2.NSTLD.COM. This is expected.

Most people don't know about the NSTLD.COM servers, since the
IPs of the gtld-servers are passed as glue by the roots, no nameservers
for gtld-servers.net are involved normally.

> > Any explanations for the new domain names that are associated here?
> > Why would Verisign change the name?
> 
> Verisign has nothing to do with root-servers.

They have everything to do with the gtld-servers, though.
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