Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:06:08 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: benjamin@seattleFenix.net Cc: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <20020915160608.4ecea72e.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020915064746.G19204@mail.seattleFenix.net> References: <20020915121826.55453.qmail@web12908.mail.yahoo.com> <016b01c25cb5$996d0550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020915064746.G19204@mail.seattleFenix.net>
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:47:46 -0700
Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net> wrote:
> I just spent 25 minutes googling for an authoritative list of root
> nameservers
> and what operating systems and platforms they run on, however I
> couldn't find any such list. The only machine I could find was
> A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET which lives in VA with NSI and runs on an IBM S80
> RS/6000 running AIX. From what I gleaned of the gTLD documentation,
> all of the root nameservers run a form of UNIX on various hardware,
> and all of them run BIND.
IIRC, the root servers used to run on Sun hardware (i.e. Solaris) but
were switched to IBM a few years ago. All of them run a customized
version of BIND. It's a case where we won't see MS software any time
soon (hopefully).
Cheers,
--
Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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