Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

[Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>]

> Something like this can be seen on www.airow.com:
> $ dig www.airow.com @a.gtld-servers.net
> ...

looks good to me, man.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @f.6to4-servers.net www.airow.com a 
; (2 servers found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.airow.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.airow.com.          2D IN A         66.82.206.10

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
airow.com.              2D IN NS        ns1.rfwwp.com.
airow.com.              2D IN NS        www.airow.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.rfwwp.com.          2D IN A         208.191.129.185

;; Total query time: 37 msec
;; FROM: stick.isc.org to SERVER: f.6to4-servers.net  2001:4f8:0:2::14
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 17 14:31:48 2003
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 101

> After delegation-only, they will start to return
> 208.191.129.189. Which is probably an improvement, but a change no
> less.

see above.

> So I'm unsure about ISC's approach.

me too.