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RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
From: rdobbins () netmore net
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:58:04 -0700
I know the difference, it's just been common practice for a long time to refer to them as the 'root' servers. You and Mr. Bush are right about that, of course - but I still think it was nice of NSI to actually let us know about the TLD server change. ----------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () netmore net> // 818.535.5024 voice -----Original Message----- From: woods () weird com [mailto:woods () weird com] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:41 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net [ On Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at 18:58:21 (-0700), rdobbins () netmore net wrote: ]
Subject: RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Yes, in the common parlance, they're referred to as the 'root' servers. Most technical people, including myself (unless we're being pedantic)
refer
to them in the same way.
It would appear that at least some technical people need to learn to mind their p's and q's a with a little more care and attention! There is, and can ony be, one ``root'' in the DNS. Everything else is a subdomain. Just because once upon a time the root nameservers and the most common Top-Level-Domain nameservers were one in the same doesn't mean you can freely refer to the TLD servers as "root" servers! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
Current thread:
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net, (continued)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Randy Bush (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Greg A. Woods (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Randy Bush (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Nathan Lane (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Steve Sobol (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Thomas Marshall Eubanks (Sep 20)
- -Yo, Nathan- bmanning (Sep 20)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Rodney Joffe (Sep 19)
- RE: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Greg A. Woods (Sep 19)
- Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net Shawn McMahon (Sep 20)
- RE: Root zone change -- technical aspect mike harrison (Sep 20)
- RE: Root zone change -- technical aspect John Fraizer (Sep 20)
- RE: Root zone change -- technical aspect Bryan Bradsby (Sep 20)
- Re: Root zone change -- technical aspect bmanning (Sep 20)